Agnes Gund

Agnes Gund moves me more than almost any collector I can think of. She rose to become President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, yet what stays with me is that she treated art as something to be opened outward, famously selling a major work to fund criminal justice reform. That is generosity with real teeth. Too many wealthy patrons hoard beauty; Gund spent her long life, ending in 2025 at eighty-seven, turning privilege into public good. I think of her not as someone who owned great art but as someone who let it serve people.

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Name (English)

Agnes Gund

Name (Japanese)

アグネス・ガンド

Reading

あぐねす・がんど

Born

August 13, 1938 – September 18, 2025

Occupation

art collector

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Tiger

University

Harvard University

Awards & achievements

• Harvard Centennial Medal
• 1994 Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Gund
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4693047

Tags

• art collector

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.