Linda Lee Alter (born 1939) is an American visual artist who is primarily known as an art collector and philanthropist.

[4] Artists in this exhibition included Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Joan Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, Viola Frey, Ana Mendieta, Christina Ramberg, Beatrice Wood, Alice Neel, Faith Ringgold, Louise Nevelson, Gertrude Abercrombie, Edna Andrade, and Sue Coe, amongst many others.

[4] Chief Curator of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Robert Cozzolino, edited a book entitled The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World about the collection.

In 1993, Alter started the Leeway Foundation to support women artists, particularly those of the greater Philadelphia area.

In 2012, she won a Bebe Benoliel Founder's Award for an Outstanding Arts Contributor from Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA.[5] In 2008, Alter won a Robin Hood Was Right Award from Bread & Roses Community Fund's Tribute to Change, Philadelphia, PA.[6] In 1988, Alter received an Honorary Doctorate of the Arts from Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA