Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. Of these objects, 748 of them are on view in the museum now. 84,693 of them are available online. There are 1,596 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. They are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Mythical chariot scene depicting a winged figure holding up a flaming torch in a chariot drawn by two horses. The grey oval medallion is framed by a teal foliage wreath.

Unknown Maker, French

Antique Medallion Wallpaper

Vignette of a woman in red classical attire dancing with a child standing on a white marble platform, set within a floating garden against a water stained dark blue field.

Dufour et Leroy

Maternal Love (L’Amour Maternel) Wallpaper

Wallpaper section depicting mythological battles framed within ancient columns. The figures are done in warm sepia tones, while the columns and backdrop are done in muted jade green.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper Dado

Wallpaper featuring detailed mandalas made of leaf and foliage designs that transition from a muted orange, to sunny yellow, to a cool teal at the center.

Zuber & Cie

Irisé Wallpaper

Fragment of a navy blue wallpaper depicting a garden scene of a lady in a red chiton dancing with a child standing on a white marble pedestal.

Dufour et Leroy

Maternal Love (L’Amour Maternel) Wallpaper

Faded beige wallpaper featuring three figures in traditional attire, a dog, and a flock of sheep. Floral ornaments can be seen above and below the pastoral scene.

Joseph Dufour

Romantic Scene Wallpaper

Wallpaper featuring alternating vertical stripes of poppies and ornamental floral motifs in a palette of blue, white, and taupe.

Unknown Maker, French

Poppies and Ornaments Wallpaper

Fragment of stained, vintage fabric wallpaper featuring delicate black botanical embroidery on a rustic terracotta backdrop.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper Imitating Fabric

Segment of vintage wallpaper featuring a pattern of romanticized architectural scenes with ruins, bridges, and florals on a weathered background. Botanical motifs are scattered throughout the blue and pink design.

Jean-Baptiste Huet

Wallpaper

Grayscale photograph of two large banners. The left-side banner shows a fat woman, barely dressed, and a thin man in a suit saying “Just one more bolt of cloth will make it.” The right-side banner depicts the woman lying sideways, with text reading “Dolly Dimples” and “Personality Fat Girl.”

Marion Post Wolcott

Carnival Sign at Strawberry Festival Plant City, Florida, 1939

In an etching on beige paper, a little person sits cross-legged among books, papers, and a pot of ink. He wears an 18th-century suit and wide-brimmed hat. Text at the bottom is in Spanish. Translated into English reads: “Taken and captured from the original painting of Diego Velazquez which represents the Dwarf of King Philip IV by Francisco Goya, [illegible] in the Royal Palace of Madrid, 1773.”

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Un Enano (A Dwarf) / El Primo

A grayscale photograph of a light-skinned woman standing in a hallway, a light-skinned girl in her arms. The girl looks towards the viewer laughing while the woman smiles at her.

Salvatore Mancini

Ladd School (Woman Holding Young Girl)

Salvatore Mancini

Ladd School

In a lightly-rendered etching on beige paper, a Venetian lady regards herself in a mirror while a little person in a stately suit holds her dress behind her.

Jack Levine

Venetian Lady

Realistically rendered etching of a cast of characters inhabiting an 18th-century mental institution. The room is populated with institutionalized men, while two upper-class women shield their eyes with fans.

William Hogarth

Plate 8 (Tom Rakewell Ends Up in the Bethlehem Hospital Madhouse)

Guido Reni

St. Sebastian

Scott Lapham

Steere Worsted Mill #2 Demolished 2000

An expressive print of Yvette Guilbert. Wearing long gloves and a dress, her body fades into the stage behind her. To her left is the dark silhouette of another figure.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Sur la Scène (Yvette Guilbert on Stage)

A print of white hazy circles of various sizes randomly spread across a warm brown background. All but four of the white circles contain a smaller red dot.

Ross Bleckner

Antibody Diversity

Rough, loose black lines illustrate a semi-nude figure lying on a bed in a small room, feet extended and arms wrapped around their head. Two faces peer in through windows.

Michael Mazur

Figure on a Bed