Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,097 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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A muted red and green colored woodblock print of a Japanese actor playing a small hand drum. He is depicted in a room with a half-opened sliding door behind him.

Torii Kiyomitsu I

Segawa Kikunojō II, Edo (Japanese period)

A woodblock print in muted tones of five children dancing and playing beneath festive rope streamers. A small display of pine, lobster, and oranges is on the right.

Torii Kiyonaga 鳥居清長

New Year (初春 Shoshun), Edo Period

A seated woman in a robe of swirling blue and red designs preparing to play a thirteen-stringed zither. Above her is a poem and a tree with blossoms made of coins.

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Good-Natured (Otonashiki), Edo (Japanese period)

A woodblock print of a seated woman. She wears a rich black robe embellished in metallic floral patterns and holds a round lute. Poems are inscribed above the image.

Kōitsu

Woman with a Moon Lute, Edo (Japanese period)

Dominique Charles Fouqueray

Le Cardinal Mercier Protège La Belgique

Lucien Jonas

La Journée du Poilu

Wolfsberg

Kunsthaus Maskenfest

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 Period

Kara Walker

Cotton Hoards in the Southern Swamp

Utagawa Kunisada II 二代歌川国貞

Temporary quarters of the New Yoshiwara: Courtesans patronized by Owariya Hikotaro viewing cherry blossoms (Shin Yoshiwara kataku: Owariya Hikotaro kakae yujo hanami zu), Edo Period

Leon Albert Golub

Combat II

A tall, cascading waterfall on the left edge, framed by colorful rocky terrain, and travelers crossing a bridge near the rushing waters.

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Ono Falls on the Kisokaidō (木曾海道小野ノ瀑布 Kisokaidō Ono no bakufu), Edo Period

Print in bright yet faded colors, of figures climbing a lush mountain alongside a waterfall. They travel from a group of huts towards slats built into one of the mountain-faces.

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Kannon Temple at Kiyo Falls Sakanoshita on the Tokaido (Tokaido sakanoshita kiyotaki kannon), Edo (Japanese period)

Yoshida Hiroshi 吉田博

Canal Venice (Benizu no unga)

Francesca Woodman

Charlie the Model #1 Providence, RI

Francesca Woodman

Charlie the Model #4 Providence, RI

Richard Serra

Untitled

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 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)

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

Daughter/Step Daughter