Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,435 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,139 of them are available online. There are 1,867 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Joseph E. Norman

Eden City Eden (triptych)

Anna Barriball

Sunrise/Sunset VI

Anna Barriball

Sunrise/Sunset VI

Anna Barriball

Sunrise/Sunset VI

Andrew Raftery

Untitled

Anna Barriball

Sunrise/Sunset VI

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 (Japanese period)

Utagawa Yoshifuji 歌川芳藤

Dream Mirror Reflecting Good and Evil in the Heart (Kokoro no yume yoshi ga kagami 心夢吉凶鏡)

Tacita Dean

Kronos

Nancy Friese

Open Lands Under Wide Skies

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

The Second Month: Plum Viewing (衣更着梅見Kisaragi umemi), 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)

Ishikawa Toyonobu

The left panel of a triptych showing the courtesan Yugiri of the Ogiya (OgiyaYugiri), Edo (Japanese period)

Ishikawa Toyonobu

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

Japanese print of a woman, wearing a tree-like headpiece and a floor-length orange robe with wheel and flower motifs, looking down at the yellow smoke that surrounds her top half.

Chōbunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之

A Triptych of Fashionable Disguises: The Third Princess (略三幅対女三之宮 Yatsushi sanpukutsui: Nyosan no Miya), Edo Period

Utagawa School

Actor prints by artists in the Utagawa school, Edo (Japanese period)

Kobayashi Kiyochika

Our field artillery attacks the enemy camp at Jiuliancheng, Meiji

Utagawa Yoshitora 歌川芳虎

Musical Trio of Noted Courtesans (名妓三曲合 Meigi sankyoku)

Utagawa Kokunimasa 歌川小国政

The Real Condition in Gifu and Aichi Provinces after the Great Earthquake (Gifu Ken Aichi Ken Dai Jishin Jikkyō 岐阜県愛知県大地震実況)

Three-part Japanese print of two women, with swords, wearing patterned, colorful robes next to cherry blossom trees about to engage in combat, against a black ombre background.

Toyohara Chikanobu 豊原周延

Female Legend of the Water Margin (Onna suikoden 女水滸傳), Meiji Period