<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.saam.media/files/styles/large/s3/images/2018-04/iw.group-3_2.jpg?itok=MntqTfj3" width="250" height="363" alt="Thumbnail" title="Helen Zell" class="img-responsive" />In the more than sixty years since first collecting dolls and Katy Keene comics (complete with cut-out costumes!) as a child, Helen Zell, smitten with what she called "the collection gene gone wild," hasn't stopped. In more recent years, the Chicago born-and-based Zell and her husband Sam have amassed an important collection of twentieth century artwork as well as early ethnographic pieces.
