Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,137 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,605 of them are available online. There are 2,180 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Marble sculpture depicting the thumb of a carved hand holding rock from which two emerging figures flow into each other,
rising from a base of unworked stone.

Auguste Rodin

The Hand of God

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Blossoming Plum Branches (Ume), Edo (Japanese period)

Woodblock print of two light-skinned women dressed in pink earth-toned garments engaged in conversation. The woman on the left is holding a circular tray of sushi on her shoulders.

Kikugawa Eizan 菊川英山

Two Women with a Tray of Sushi, Edo Period

A reed pen and black ink drawing of the interior of a tavern in Pompeii. A figure peers in the doorway at the ruins of the stone vats and bar.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Interior of a Tavern in Pompeii

A red and white chalk drawing of the Holy Family. Mary holds baby Jesus in her lap and points to Joseph working in his carpentry shop. Two putti fly above.

Antonio Gionima

Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph in the Carpenter Shop

A sketchy brown pen and ink study of an older, dapper gentlemen surrounded by a mass of ill-defined bowing supplicants. The image is overlaid with a grid, presumably for transfer.

James Gillray

Study for An Old English Gentleman Pester’d by Servants Wanting Places

Unknown Maker, Probably

Needle Work Picture

Woodblock print of a seated woman, facing leftwards, wearing an orange-lined teal garment that fades to brown with floral embellishments against a backdrop of blossoming branches and pastel orange clouds.

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Hand games and flowering sleeves (拳角力花の振袖 Kenzumo hana no furisode), Edo Period

Childe Hassam

Easthampton

Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉

Landscape (Sansui), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Falcon pine and rising sun (Hatsuhinode matsu ni taka), Edo (Japanese period)

Kawanabe Kyōsai

Crow on branch, Edo (Japanese period)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Maples (Kaede), Edo Period

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Kingfisher and Viburnum, Edo Period

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Green Peacock and Maple (Kaede ni makujaku), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shunzan

Rising sun and Takasago pine (Hinode to Takasago no matsu), Edo Period

Utagawa Kunisato

Plum, Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Sparrows and bamboo (Take ni suzume), Edo (Japanese period)

Kitao Shigemasa 北尾重政

Golden pheasants and bush clover (Hagi ni kiji), Edo (Japanese period)

Kitao Shigemasa 北尾重政

Hawk and plum (Ume ni taka), Edo (Japanese period)