Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,134 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,750 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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Kawamura Kihō

Kihō’s Sketchbook (Kihō gafu), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Quick Pictorial Dictionary ( 画本早引 Ehon Hayabiki) Vol 2, Edo Period

Kitao Masayoshi 北尾政美

Sketches by Keisai: Vol. 4, Edo Period

Henry Woolley

Portfolio of 66 Designs for Furniture and Interior Decoration

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Hokusai's picture book: Vol. I, Meiji

Kitao Masayoshi 北尾政美

Sketches by Keisai: Vol. 2, Edo Period

Henri Gabriel Ibels

Programme du Deuxième Spectacle de la Saison 1892-1893

Henri Gabriel Ibels

Programme du Sixième Spectacle de la Saison 1892-1893

Lucas van Leyden

Abraham and the Three Angels

Philips Galle

The Parable of the Good Shepherd

Large, pastel-hued chrysanthemums among dark green foliage against a black background. Solid-colored blocks of vertical calligraphy accent the corners of the composition.

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Longevity Chrysanthemums, Edo Period

Henri Rousseau

Flowers in a Vase

A richly embossed woodblock print with metallic embellishments. A seated man in a floral-patterned maroon robe plays the flute. A black lacquered screen is beside him.

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

The Broom Tree (Hahakigi), Edo (Japanese period)

A three-part woodblock print in muted tones. Lavishly dressed women play music in a room opening onto a garden. A young man plays the flute outside the garden fence.

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

Ushiwakamaru Serenading Princess Joruri by Flute, Edo (Japanese period)

Kara Walker

Cotton Hoards in the Southern Swamp

Yoshida Hiroshi 吉田博

Canal Venice (Benizu no unga)

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

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)

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)