Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,423 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,213 of them are available online. There are 1,884 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Joyce J. Scott

Under His Skirt

Andrew Lord

Tasting

Feng Ning

Battle of Lancaoping and Gunniupo, Qing

Shigekatsu

Nakamura Utaemon III as Matsuomaru Arashi Raishi II as Umeomaru and Onoe Kikugoro III as Sakuramaruin the scene "Pulling the carriage apart' (Kuruma biki) from the play Sugawara's secrets of calligraphy (Sugawara denju tenarai kagami), Edo (Japanese period)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Nichiren Prays for the Restless Spirit of the Cormorant Fisherman at the Isawa River, Edo (Japanese period)

Mori Kansai

Nuthatcher on a Flowering Cherry Tree, Meiji

Toyohara Kunichika 豊原国周

The Mansion of Plates and the Cursed Makeup Mirror (皿屋敷化粧姿鏡 Sarayashiki keshō no sugatami), Meiji

Jacob Hoefnagel

Riddle: my skin is red and white liquid is hidden within (Aenigma: Rubra mihi cutis est, latet intus niveus humor)

Lloyd Martin

Finestrae I

Shigekatsu

Nakamura Utaemon III as Matsuomaru Arashi Raishi II as Umeomaru and Onoe Kikugoro III as Sakuramaruin the scene "Pulling the carriage apart' (Kuruma biki) from the play Sugawara's secrets of calligraphy (Sugawara denju tenarai kagami), Edo (Japanese period)

Cornelis van Kittensteyn

Plate 5 The Triumphal Entry of Willem of Nassau, Prince of Orange

Hu Zhengyan

Models of Letter Paper of the Ten Bamboo Studio (Shizhuzhai jianpu)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Nichiren Prays for the Restless Spirit of the Cormorant Fisherman at the Isawa River, Edo (Japanese period)

Shigekatsu

Nakamura Utaemon III as Matsuomaru Arashi Raishi II as Umeomaru and Onoe Kikugoro III as Sakuramaruin the scene "Pulling the carriage apart' (Kuruma biki) from the play Sugawara's secrets of calligraphy (Sugawara denju tenarai kagami), Edo (Japanese period)

Cornelis van Kittensteyn

Plate 2 The Triumphal Entry of Willem of Nassau, Prince of Orange

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

Nichiren Prays for the Restless Spirit of the Cormorant Fisherman at the Isawa River, Edo (Japanese period)

Cornelis van Kittensteyn

Plate 1 The Triumphal Entry of Willem of Nassau, Prince of Orange

Grayscale illustration of a scene on stage in which a dark-skinned figure bites at the neck of a light-skinned figure. Background and audience are in ink with visible brush strokes.

Kara Walker

Vanishing Act

Brian Chippendale

Home on the Run

Shigekatsu

Nakamura Utaemon III as Matsuomaru Arashi Raishi II as Umeomaru and Onoe Kikugoro III as Sakuramaruin the scene "Pulling the carriage apart' (Kuruma biki) from the play Sugawara's secrets of calligraphy (Sugawara denju tenarai kagami), Edo (Japanese period)