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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Antoine Coypel

Study for a Lunette - Figures Seated in Clouds

Robert Evans Locher

Design for a Living Room (Decorated Bookcases & Doors)

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

Red, white, and black chalk roundel-shaped portrait of a white woman with blue eyes wearing a white cloth head covering. She is in three-quarter view, looking directly at the viewer.

Gérard de Lairesse

Portrait of a Woman Probably Marie Salme, the Artist’s Wife

At the center of a cream paper, a drawing of a nude woman in gray with yellow hair. A skirt of white heads and arms juts out from her hips.

Chris Hammerlein

Untitled (Woman on pedestal)

Bartolomeo Pinelli

Neptune and Salacia

Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille

Sketches for French Officers's Uniform

Grayscale photograph of two large banners. The left-side banner shows a fat woman, barely dressed, and a thin man in a suit saying “Just one more bolt of cloth will make it.” The right-side banner depicts the woman lying sideways, with text reading “Dolly Dimples” and “Personality Fat Girl.”

Marion Post Wolcott

Carnival Sign at Strawberry Festival Plant City, Florida, 1939

In a lightly-rendered etching on beige paper, a Venetian lady regards herself in a mirror while a little person in a stately suit holds her dress behind her.

Jack Levine

Venetian Lady

Realistically rendered etching of a cast of characters inhabiting an 18th-century mental institution. The room is populated with institutionalized men, while two upper-class women shield their eyes with fans.

William Hogarth

Plate 8 (Tom Rakewell Ends Up in the Bethlehem Hospital Madhouse)

A print of white hazy circles of various sizes randomly spread across a warm brown background. All but four of the white circles contain a smaller red dot.

Ross Bleckner

Antibody Diversity

Rough, loose black lines illustrate a semi-nude figure lying on a bed in a small room, feet extended and arms wrapped around their head. Two faces peer in through windows.

Michael Mazur

Figure on a Bed

A decorative drawing depicting the winged allegorical figures of Love, Friendship, and Time. The figures, architectural ruins, and landscape reference ancient Greece.

Jean-Jacques Karpff, called Casimir

L’amour et l’amitié (Love and Friendship; design for printed toile fabric)

Done in white and blue with regular vertical red lines that run across the entire sheet, this drawing hazily depicts a male-presented figure seated adjacent to a window.

René Santos

Harp Drawing

James H. Draper

BECK: Ernie Bushmiller's Aunt Fritz

Kenneth Miller Adams

Taos Indian Girl

Gorham Manufacturing Company

Design for a Cigarette Box

Camillo Pacetti

Achilles Dragging the Body of Hector around the Walls of Troy

Therman Statom

Untitled (Glass House)