Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,084 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,789 of them are available online. There are 2,338 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Pastoral scene of a winged cherub playing in a patch of lush greenery and blooms, contrasting with the rich blue surrounding background.

Dufour et Leroy

Little Allegories Wallpaper

Three, bronze flower bordered cream panels with bronze reliefs of a woman wrapping a leaf garland around a lamb and two repeating motifs of a cane and leaf basket.

Jacquemart et Bénard

Wallpaper Dado

Aged, cream wallpaper with repeating motifs of two winged babies encircling a sleeping dog in brown and tan watercolor. Pink flower bouquets and leaf garlands surround the babies throughout.

Simon

Flowers and Cupids Wallpaper

Crinkled, yellow wallpaper with repeating figures, sitting and riding a horse, enclosed in rotated diamond frames, against vertical stripes made out of yellow wavy lines and black-dotted white sections.

Ferrouillat et Cie

Diamond-Shape Design Wallpaper

Cream wallpaper with multicolored birds sitting atop thin, winding brown branches which have leaves and various colored flowers on them. Butterflies, with outstretched wings, fly around the branches.

Dufour et Leroy

Wallpaper

Panel of vintage fabric wallpaper depicting an abstract geometric blue and peach pattern on a tan background. The design is vertically aligned and features a centric textured blue stripe.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper Imitating Fabric

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

Saturated orange and yellow watercolor paint reveals the shape of a white sphinx in the negative space. Upon and around this space, small brown figures climb and move.

Kara Walker

A Special Attraction

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

An abstract drawing that looks like an architectural edifice or complex machinery. The graphite and soot have been applied and scraped off in places, giving it a foggy appearance.

Lee Bontecou

Untitled

Full-length drawing of a soldier holding a gun. Behind and around him is a chaotic scene full of mythical and natural animals and faces and eyes.

Hew Locke

Arabian Nights

One corner of this drawing points up, so that the cup appears to be spilling coffee as it tips right.

Elizabeth Murray

Spill One

I. C. Editions

Money Dances

I. C. Editions

Money Dances

Paul Poiret

Coat

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

Unknown Maker, Indian

Qur'an Page, Sultanate

Lalla Essaydi

The Women of Morocco #45 (Les Femmes du Maroc # 45)

Irene Bayer-Hecht

Grit Kallin

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