09/20/2025
Collecting art does so much for the world and the world was fortunate to have Agnes Gund! Be a patron!
Agnes Gund, one of the greatest and most influential art patrons in the US, has died at 87. The New York Times reported her death on Friday, but did not state a cause.
Gund’s collecting and philanthropy transformed the American art world, spurring on many others to begin buying art with seriousness. Her influence is most deeply felt at the Museum of Modern Art, the New York institution that she had helped fund since 1967, when she joined its international council.
In the 40-plus years since then, Gund helped bankroll many efforts that aided in launching MoMA into the future, in particular the museum’s 2004 expansion. That initiative, which involved the creation of an entirely new building, was designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, cost $858 million, and helped turn MoMA into the behemoth it is today. She was also crucial in relaunching the institution now known as MoMA PS1, a vaunted Queens
contemporary art center that she helped bring under MoMA’s aegis in 1999.
Read more: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/agnes-gund-dead-moma-art-collecting-1234752843/
