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. The CPPC is comprised of five collections: modern, contemporary, colonial period, traveler artists, and Orinoco.