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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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)

A brown bird feeding chicks in a woven nest among clusters of purple flowers, tall grass, and red berries against a faded pink and blue sky. Small calligraphy panels surround.

Utagawa Sadahide 歌川貞秀

Reed Warblers Iris and Indian Strawberries (杜菖花よしきり蛇苺 Kakitsubata yoshikiri hebiichigo), Edo Period

Ko Sukei

Cranes cherry, and old well (Furuido ni sakura to tsuru), Edo (Japanese period)

Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉

Grasshopper and morning glories (Asagao ni kirigisu), Edo (Japanese period)

Kitao Masayoshi 北尾政美

Oriole (Kori), Edo (Japanese period)

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Birds on a Maple Tree, Qing

Isoda Koryūsai 礒田湖龍斎

Cranes and pines (Tsuru to matsu), Edo Period

Stephan Brigidi

Switzerland 2001

Pink, purple, and yellow flowers framed by green foliage set before a full moon with an assortment of small seals set against a light blue sky.

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Moon Begonias, Bell Flowers and Ominaeshi, Edo Period

Gorham Manufacturing Company

Design for Sugar Bowl No. 8580

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Wild Geese and Moon (Tsuki ni gan), Edo (Japanese period)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Duck and Bush Clover (Hagi ni u), Edo Period

Käthe Kollwitz

Study for Unemployed; verso: Self-Portrait and Standing Woman

Kobayashi Kiyochika

Scouts near Niuzhuang on a Snowy Night (Gyūsō fukin setsuya no sekkō), Meiji

Narrow vertical composition of three brown geese descending towards deep blue waving horizons and clouds under a pale moon against a light gray backdrop. Below is a red artists stamp.

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Wild Geese Flying across the Moon, Edo Period

George Wesley Bellows

Murder of Edith Cavell

Daniel Heyman

Untitled

A black and red bird perches on a tall green stem overlooking a lake a sunset, at the center of which is a town with wooden houses.

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Shinobazu Pond (不忍の池 Shinobazu no ike), Edo Period

Kitagawa Tsukimaro

Magnolias and Butterfly, Edo Period

Adolph Gottlieb

Lemon Yellow Ground