Collections: Arts of Africa

  • 1st Floor
    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
  • 2nd Floor
    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
  • 4th Floor
    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
  • 5th Floor
    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Figurine of a Steatopygous Female

During the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period, sculptors occasionally depicted the female form in a highly schematic manner: flat...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Modern Madonna

    Like her contemporary Mary Cassatt, Bessie Potter Vonnoh favored young children and their mothers as subjects. In this bronze, a mother gaze...

     

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    Vessel for Kwandalha Healing DivinationBwami Hat for Kindi Level Hair OrnamentTwin FigurePendant CrossPendant CrossPendant CrossPendant CrossFeast Ladle (Wunkermian)Hand CrossProcessional CrossHelmet Mask (ndoli jowei) for Sande SocietyMask (Lukwakongo)Standing Female FigureStanding Female Figure (Tulume)Figure (Iginga)
     
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