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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Photograph of an abandoned-looking operating room with chipping ceilings, blue walls, and discarded paper and debris scattering the gray floor. Aged medical equipment and white metal furniture splay the room.

Jane Wilson

Stasi City (Operating Room)

Painting of an ambiguous jagged gray figure holding a yellow sword against white rectangles on a red background. Black graphic lines pattern and outline the figures and background.

Roberto Matta

The Remainer

Painting of the side view of a slender figure leaning towards a yellow rectangle against a white background with gray streaks and thick black diagonal lines coming from the corners.

Sanya Kantarovsky

We and You Gradually Form a Unit

Abstract painting of various swirling black marks against a multicolored background of grays and blues giving way to yellow-whites and reds, with various green shapes on top as well.

Ruth Dealy

Regent Place Park #3

Abstract painting of white chalk-like textured outlines against a background of black, green, yellow, and pink splotches.

Pamela Jorden

Untitled

Caitlin Keogh

PAINting

Abstract painting of two adjacent circular red and yellow forms surrounded by expressive swirling blue motifs overtop a background of expressive red and dark brown lines.

Alfonso Ossorio

Dividing Cells

Jonathan Baldock

Gluttony

Black and white photo of a person in a white dress being assisted by two firefighters wearing long coats and helmets and holding a hose. A ladder is in the dark background.

Weegee

New York City

A handwritten letter in blue cursive writing on white paper against a white background. The letter is divided into four centered paragraphs with the date in the top right corner.

Danh Võ

Last letter of Saint Théophane Vénard to his father before he was decapitated copied by Phung Võ

Painting of two faint figures in separate beds. The beds are on a white rectangular rug in a room with blue walls, a furnace, and a dishpan.

Hedda Sterne

Still Life - Memory of My Childhood

Painting of a green geometrically patterned forest with a green watering can and a sliver of a blue moon. The forest is textured with lighter shades of oranges and yellows.

André Lhote

The Garden (Le Jardin)

Janine Antoni

Mary

Abstract painting of two columns of horizontal black lines. Five black thick varied rows are on the left. Black and red lines merge to form a table on the right.

Duane Slick

An Actuarial Space II

Roberto Lugo

A Century of Black Lives Mattering

Sketches of seven Japanese actors from the chest up, all looking to the left. Some look grave and others wear a wry smile. The bottom fifth of the sheet is gray with Japanese characters written in white.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Scribblings on the storehouse wall (荷宝蔵壁のむだ書 Nitakaragura kabe no mudagaki), Edo Period

John Prip

Bracelet Model

Suh Se Ok 서세옥

People

Brown clay bust of a figure with a grass and stick headdress. Diagonal lines of patterned patches of offwhite run across their chest and cover their face.

Rose B. Simpson

Shard

Dawn Spears

Her Empowerment — Our Legacy