Olga Zatorsky was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, to immigrant parents from Ukraine.
She graduated from Greenwich High School in 1939 and married her English teacher, John Cunningham, and they had three sons together.
She owned houses in Martha's Vineyard and Naples, Florida, where she died, aged 95, in 2015.
[5] Hirshhorn donated her "Mouse House" collection to The Baker Museum in Naples, Florida, in 2013.
[6] The Frick Collection contains various archives relating to Hirshhorn as well as an oral history completed in 1988.