She was the president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York for more than a decade, donated more than 1,800 artworks to institutions over her lifetime, and once sold her most treasured Lichtenstein painting for $165 million to fund a major anti-incarceration initiative. Seven years before the arts patron and leader Agnes Gund died — at age 87, in the fall of 2025 — The New York Times profiled her lifelong philanthropic work under the headline “Is Agnes Gund the Last Good Rich Person?”
That’s quite possibly so, as the piece noted that by that point, she had spent decades giving her fortune away to the arts, as well as to AIDS research and reproductive rights groups. Generosity on that…