Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,434 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,191 of them are available online. There are 1,867 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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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)

Morris Engel

Coney Island

Rachel Whiteread

Stairs 6 steps, black

Laura McPhee

Judy Tracking Radio-Collared Wolves From Her Yard Summer Range, H-Hook Ranch, Custer County, Idaho

Marcel Dzama

Untitled

Louise Hopkins

Untitled (Blue Map)

John Morris

Untitled

Simon Evans

Berlin Art Scene