Pioneering Crafts Collector Sandy Grotta Dies at Age 87

When Sandy Grotta began collecting American craft, there were no contemporary craft collectors. The year was 1957. She and her husband, Lou, stopped in to see “Furniture by Craftsmen” at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York (today’s Museum of Arts and Design), then a non-collecting venue only in its second year of operation in a tidy townhouse next to the Museum of Modern Art. Among the 39 furniture-makers included in the exhibition were Joyce and Edgar Anderson, not l