Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. Of these objects, 3,349 of them are on view in the museum now. 81,118 of them are available online. There are 3,715 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. They are frequently revised and enhanced.

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showing 24 works out of 81,118

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Brett Weston

New York City, detail of a window of building, vines, 1943
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Eleanor Antin

100 Boots Taking the Hill (3), Lomas Santa Fe, California, June 13, 1972, 1972
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American

Advertising Photograph, Royal Typewriter, ca. 1940
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Daniel Marot

Plate from Desseins d'Arc de Triomphe (Triumphal Arch Designs), 1712
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Greek

Bird, ca. 700 BCE
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James H. Draper

"Natasha Nogodnik" from Jay Ward's Rocky and Bullwinkle, 1978-2005
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Japanese

group ~ textile ~ swatch, 1900s
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Greek

Ring, 499-400 BCE
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French

Tile, ca. 1300s-1400s
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Chinese

Rooster, Hen, and Chicks, Qing dynasty
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Unknown artist

Premiers au Feu Means in French, First to Fight in English U. S. Marines, 1917
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Philbert Louis Debucourt

Le Compliment, ou La Matinée du Jour de L'an, (The Compliment or The Morning of New Year's Day), 1787
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Italian

Textile fragment, 1550-1575
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Chinese

Uncut Sleeve Band, ca. 1862 - 1909
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Nishimura Shigenaga

The actors Ichimura Takenojo as Kudo Suketsune and Sanjo Kantaro as the princess Tatsuhime in the play Hinazuru unagasu Soga performed at the Ichimura Theatre 1722.11, late 1730's
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Seth Eastman

Bufa del Cobra-Rocky Mountains, New Mexico, ca. 1853

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