The Philadelphia Museum of Art has announced a gift of ninety-seven works from the collection of trustee Keith L. Sachs and his wife, Katherine.

The collection features works by contemporary American masters Jasper Johns and Ellsworth Kelly, as well as important works of outdoor sculpture, large-scale photography, and video art. In recognition of the gift, the museum will name its galleries for modern and contemporary art the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Galleries and will present a full-scale exhibition devoted to the collection in the summer of 2016.

"The Sachs Collection reinforces and expands the scope of the museum's holdings of contemporary art and will enable us to present to our audiences a more comprehensive view of the art of the past half century," said Timothy Rub, the museum's director and CEO. "It brings this institution into the top echelon among encyclopedic museums that collect contemporary art." Rub told the Philadelphia Inquirer that the gift both complements and fills significant gaps in the museum's current collection — including works by Howard Hodgkin and Robert Ryman, video works, and large-scale photography.

The Sachses have been supporters of the Philadelphia Museum of Art since the 1970s, when Katherine Sachs worked in the museum's public relations department and later served as a docent; she also has contributed scholarship to numerous exhibitions at the museum. Keith Sachs, former CEO of Saxco International LLC, chairs the museum's Modern and Contemporary Art Committee and has served as a Philadelphia Museum of Art trustee since 1988.

"Our collecting has been a process of both discovery and engagement, and one that has been richly rewarding and increasingly important in our lives," said Keith Sachs. "We believe deeply in the vision of those artists whose work we have collected in depth and in their enduring significance. As long as we have been collecting, we have admired and supported the serious commitment that the museum has made to the acquisition and display of the art of our time. For these reasons and because we feel it is important to share what we value so much with the community, we have decided to entrust our collection to the museum's care. By so doing, we are not only making an investment in the future of this institution, but also taking a step that we hope will encourage others to support the continued development of a collection that is among the finest in this country."