Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,133 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,769 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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Linda Connor

Crocodile Valley of the Kings, Egypt

John Prip

Salt Shaker

Kikugawa Eizan 菊川英山

Fashionable Winding-stream Banquet (風流曲水ノ宴 Furyū kyokusui no en), Edo Period

David Eisendrath

Playing Cards at Chautauqua

Morris Gordon

Bakers (Return Trip)

Irving Haberman

Marty Snyder of New York carrying on a last ditch for Eisenhower…

Keisai Eisen 渓斎英泉

Yamada school (Yamada ryu), Edo (Japanese period)

Ochiai Yoshiiku

Evening snow at a boathouse (Ofunagura no bosetsu), Edo (Japanese period)

Vibrant three-part woodblock print of three women on a garden outing, framed by cherry blossoms. They wear floral-patterned robes and carry food boxes, drinking vessels, and a musical instrument.

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Enjoying Flowers in the Inner Garden (Oniwa hana no asobi), Edo (Japanese period)

A multicolor woodblock print of a blue-robed woman carrying a round black food box. The title is in the upper right.

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Outing to a flower garden (Oniwa hana no asobi), Edo (Japanese period)

A woodblock print of a woman in a long-sleeved robe. She carries a porcelain wine bowl with cups in one hand and a musical instrument in the other.

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Outing to a flower garden (Oniwa hana no asobi), Edo (Japanese period)

A woodblock print of a woman in a floral-patterned grey robe carrying a wooden sake cask.

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Outing to a flower garden (Oniwa hana no asobi), Edo (Japanese period)

Nishimura Shigenaga 西村重長

Bird and iris (Kakitsubata ni kotori), Meiji

Nishimura Shigenaga

Autumn moon Ishiyama Temple (Ishiyama shugetsu), Edo (Japanese period)

Ishikawa Toyonobu

The right panel of a triptych showing the courtesan Koito of the Itoya, Edo (Japanese period)

Unknown Maker, Japanese

The geisha Okura and Wakamurasaki, Edo Period

Isoda Koryūsai 礒田湖龍斎

Parody of Sofu and Kyoyu (Sofu Kyoya), Edo (Japanese period)

Kitao Shigemasa 北尾重政

Chapter 7 of the 11 chapters of Chushingura (The treasury of loyal retainers) (Chushingura shichidanme junimaizoku), Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shunshō

The actor Ichikawa Danjurō V, Edo (Japanese period)

Katsukawa Shunkō

The actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in a female role (yondai Iwai Hanshiro), Edo (Japanese period)