Collections: American Art

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    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: Grey Area (Brown version)

Fred Wilson often appropriates art objects to explore issues of race, gender, class, politics, and aesthetics. Made up of five portrait head...

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: Garudasana Vishnu

    Vishnu, the Preserver, is mounted on his vahana, or vehicle, the mythical bird Garuda.

     

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    Italian SketchbookWoman in ManteauTropical SceneryBacchanteOn the Delaware RiverThe Waste of Waters is Their FieldThe WaveStreet Scene (Hester Street)Shooting for the BeefJohn VinallEast River ParkMy UncleWyntje (Lavinia) Van VechtenPortrait of a WomanGeorge WashingtonNude with Apple
     
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