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. 85,762 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.

Enter your search terms below or begin with a random object.

showing 20 works out of 237

Woodblock print featuring a beetle climbing onto a vibrant yellow ear of corn, a smaller one on the muted green leaves, and a spider perched on the brown husk.

Mori Shunkei 森春渓

Corn Spiders, and Beetle, Edo Period

Kenyon Cox

Vintage Baskets

Morton Livingston Schamberg

Fruitbowl

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Patrinia flower (Valerian) (Ominaeshi), Edo Period

Torii Kiyotomo

Actor as a street vendor selling hand towels and scent pouches in the shapes of kimono sleeves (Sanogawa Ichimatsu?), Edo Period

Katsukawa Shunsen 勝川春扇

Cranes pines and rising sun (Hinode to matsu to tsuru), Edo Period

Sadahiro Utagawa

Yokkaichi, Edo Period

Reginald Bathurst Birch

"The train will be the main thing she said" [S...?] Boys

Intricate, monochrome, Japanese woodblock print capturing a chaotic battle scene with samurai, horses, and a background of trees and architecture. Calligraphy is dispersed throughout the complex image.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Proof Impression of Vengence at Iga Pass (伊賀越敵討図 Igagoe kataki-uchi no zu), Edo Period

Faintly orange, monochrome Japanese woodblock print of a samurai wielding multiple swords against a complex landscape background. The figure wears traditional fighting attire and has a stern expression.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Proof Impression of Vengence at Iga Pass (伊賀越敵討図 Igagoe kataki-uchi no zu) , Edo Period

A glass jar tightly packed with gray and white striped sunflower seeds, sealed with a hinged metal clasp and a glass lid.

Ai Weiwei 艾未未

Kui Hua Zi (Sun Flower Seeds)

Traditional woodblock print of three women in colorful kimonos. The figure in the center is dressed in grand attire, the two other women to her sides assisting in grooming practices.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Sakaki: Omiwa (榊おみわ), Edo Period

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a blue kimono holding a patterned fabric behind her back. She is looking over her shoulder against a monochrome backdrop of blue clouds and landscapes.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Favorite Customs of the Present Day (当盛風俗好Tōsei fūzoku kō), Edo Period

Unknown Maker, Indian

Woman Warming Her Hands and Smoking a Pipe

Tanomura Chokunyū 田能村直入

Arhats in Landscape, Meiji Period

Tanomura Chokunyū 田能村直入

Arhats in Landscape, Meiji Period

Sheng Qi 盛奇

My Left Hand (Mother)

No Image Available

Unknown Maker

blouse

No Image Available

Lester George Hornby

Colonial Court-College Street

No Image Available

Augustus John

Girl's Head (The Flowered Toque)