Collection
The Gallery’s encyclopedic collections number more than 185,000 objects ranging in date from ancient times to the present day. The permanent collection includes:
- African Art: over 1000 objects in wood, metal, ivory and ceramic
- American Decorative Arts: about 18,000 objects in silver, glass, wood, porcelain, and textile with an emphasis on the colonial and early federal periods.
- American Paintings and Sculpture: over 2,500 paintings, 500 sculptures, and 300 miniatures from before the mid-twentieth century including paintings by Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, Frederic Remington, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, John Singer Sargent, Edwin Austin Abbey, Arthur Dove, Elizabeth Goodridge, and Edward Hopper, and sculptures by Hezekiah Augur, Hiram Powers, Horatio Greenough, William Henry Rinehart, Chauncey Ives, Alexander Archipenko, and Alexander Calder.
- Ancient Art: over 13,000 objects from the Near East, Egypt, Greece, Etruria, and Rome dating from the Neolithic to the early Byzantine.
- Art of the Ancient Americas: Mayan and Olmec figurines, vessels and sculptures.
- Asian Art
- Coins and Medals
- Early European Art
- Modern and Contemporary Art: including paintings and sculpture by Joseph Albers, Edgar Degas, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, and Roy Lichtenstein.
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
In 2005, the museum announced that it had acquired 1,465 gelatin silver prints by the influential American landscape photographer Robert Adams. In 2009, the museum mounted an exhibition of its extensive collection of Picasso paintings and drawings, in collaboration with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. For the first time, portions of the Yale University Library's Gertrude Stein writing archives were displayed next to relevant drawings from Picasso.
An exhibition of the Gallery's Société Anonyme Collection is currently on display in the Gallery's renovated and expanded exhibition gallery. The exhibition includes work by Constantin Brancusi, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, and Joseph Stella, among others.
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