The gallery, which opened to the public in 1975, was endowed by Abby Weed Grey, who also donated some 1,000 works of modern art that she acquired during her frequent travels in Asia and the Middle East.
Artists include: Prabhakar Barwe, Dhanraj Bhagat, Satish Gujral, Maqbool Fida Husain, Kanwal Krishna, Francis Newton Souza, Krishna Reddy, Vivan Sundaram, Jehangir P. Vazifdar .