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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showing 20 works out of 78

John La Farge

Japanese Crackle Pottery with Camellias

Lucio Pozzi

My Wind

Ornate blue floral and berry design at center set against a beige background. Surrounded by ornate blue patterning against a black background.

Unknown Maker, French

Design for Wallpaper Border or Ornament

Mustard yellow triangular shaped fabric with gray blemished borders, blue dots surrounding faint yellow lines, and multiple pink droopy flowers with white dotted centers and leaves, against a peach background.

Unknown Maker, French

Design for Wallpaper or Textile

Vertical streaks of white and black paint on off-white paper. Drips and splatters of black paint on the page as well.

Pat Steir

The Austria Group. No. 2

Segment of yellowed wallpaper featuring an undulating red and white motif bordered by intricate curved details; set against a faded blue backdrop. A botanical shape is placed below the curve.

Basset

Domino Paper (Papier Dominoté)

Floral pattern featuring red and blue flowers with green leaves interlocking with white floral patterns set against a beige background.

Unknown Maker, French

Design for Wallpaper

Orange wallpaper with curved edges and repeating large, navy blue leaves on top of winding white thorny vines throughout, against a tan background.

Unknown Maker, French

Design for Wallpaper or Textile

Fragmented and crinkled brown and blue wallpaper with a small rectangular cream tag that reads “235” and interlocking white floral garlands forming a cursive capital “M” within a larger cursive “B.”

Unknown Maker, French

Design for Ornament

Wallpaper fragment of a gold pineapple motif with floral and leaf patterned linework set against a deep blue background.

Unknown Maker, French

Design for a Wallpaper Border

Cao Quantang 曹全堂

Bumper Harvest of Wheat at the Mountainous Region

Weathered, long rectangular white panel with symmetrical accents above a small three-legged table, holding a blue and orange horizontally striped container, on top of a patterned black and red box.

Etienne de Lavallée

Design for a Wallpaper Panel

Li Shunxiao

Gold Mountain and Silver Sea (Cotton and Corn)

Carlos Mérida

El Rectangulo Menguante

Mark Tobey

The Street

A painting of a dark red rose stands out amongst deep green leaves and white, red, and gray flowers against a watered-down gray background.

Florence Cary Koehler

Floral Arrangement with Red and White Flowers

Yoo Geun-Taek 유근택

Reflection

Aged, dark brown wallpaper with a singular white flower and stem, diagonal to a yellow stemmed blue, red, and white flower bouquet with yellow leaves.

Unknown Maker, French

Design for Ornament

Alfred DeCredico

Asking

Bo Joseph

Holding Spaces: Domesticated Animism