Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

Founded in the 1970s by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Gustavo A. Cisneros, the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) is based in New York City and Caracas. Its mission is to enhance appreciation of the diversity, distinction, and range of art from Latin America, and to advance scholarship of the material cultures of the Ibero-American world that covers 500 years of artistic activities in the region. This mission is embodied in the CPPC’s expansive art collection that ranges across many genres, communities, periods, and styles. While perhaps best known for its collection of Modern geometric abstraction from Latin America, the CPPC also comprises equally important holdings of artworks and documentation by traveler artists to and within Latin America and the Caribbean from the 17th to 19th centuries; furniture, art, and objects from Latin America’s colonial period; contemporary art from Latin America and the Caribbean; and an important selection of art, artifacts, and documentation from twelve indigenous tribes of the Orinoco river basin in the Venezuelan Amazon.