Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 748 of these objects 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. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Francesca Woodman

Charlie the Model #8 Providence, RI

Francesca Woodman

Charlie the Model #7 Providence, RI

Peter Lanyon

Black Mine

Arnaldo Pomodoro

Untitled

Francis Towne

A View of the Town and Lake of Lugano

Santi di Tito

Charity Justice and Truth

Unknown Maker, Italian

Saint Francis in Adoration

Richard Serra

Untitled

Yizhak Elyashiv

Untitled

Yizhak Elyashiv

Untitled

Subtractive charcoal drawing of an imagined male figure. Leaning forward, he has his fingers interlaced and wears an ambiguous expression on his face.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Man Big Hands

A drawing of blue and graphite concentric circles that spiral outwards from a central point that is slightly off center. It makes the paper look like it’s dissipating.

Shirazeh Houshiary

Untitled

A satirical watercolor of a wedding divided into two horizontal registers on the sheet. The bride and groom are in the middle surrounded by family. Illegible text accompanies each figure.

George Moutard Woodward

Study for Symptoms of Matrimony

A loosely drawn pen and ink sketch of Saint Jerome and Saint John. Jerome is with a lion and cherub and John, to his right, looks downward toward a lamb.

Donato Creti

Studies for Saint Jerome and Saint John the Baptist

Pen and ink drawing of fifteen whimsical yet grotesque monsters scattered across the page. They are hybrid mixes of human, avian, reptilian, and amphibian parts.

Hieronymus Bosch

Model Sheet with Monsters

A black, red, and white chalk portrait of an aristocratic white woman gazing at the viewer. She has red flowers in her curly hair, a neck ruff, and pearl earrings.

Ottavio Leoni

Portrait of the Signora Licinia Leni Marchesa Martinenghi

A young woman standing erect seen from behind pointing her fan to her dressing table. She wears wide petticoats, corset, crown, and heels. Two small dogs play at her feet.

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Lady Dressing

A pen and ink drawing of a smiling, bewigged French knight. In uniform, he stands facing left, one arm holding a tri-corner hat, the other held up in greeting.

Pier Leone Ghezzi

Le Chevalier de La Motte

Red, white, and black chalk roundel-shaped portrait of a white woman with blue eyes wearing a white cloth head covering. She is in three-quarter view, looking directly at the viewer.

Gérard de Lairesse

Portrait of a Woman Probably Marie Salme, the Artist’s Wife

Pieter Withoos

Study of Four Butterflies and a Bumblebee