Overview

• Agnes Gund, a collector and MoMA president emerita, died September 18 at her Manhattan home at 87, with no cause of death reported.
• Her MoMA leadership spanned decades, from the International Council in 1967 to president from 1991 to 2002, guiding a 1990s expansion completed in 2004 and helping forge MoMA PS1.
• She founded Studio in a School in 1977 to place working artists in New York City public classrooms, a program that continues today.
• Her philanthropy included gifting about 250 works to MoMA and promising most of an approximately 2,000‑work collection to museums.
• She leveraged art-market proceeds for social impact, notably selling Roy Lichtenstein’s Masterpiece for $165 million in 2017 to seed the Art for Justice Fund, and supporters recall her hands-on role launching community efforts such as CITYarts.