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Unknown artist ("Frank Henderson" Ledger), American / Southern Inunaina and/or Southern Tsistsistas, active late 19th century, Untitled (A Crazy Dog Society Warrior), page number 172 from the "Frank Henderson Ledger”

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Featured Collections

  • Daniel Beltra, Spanish, born 1964, Agua Boa, Mato Grosso (Brasil), from the New Amazon Landscape series, August 2008

    LEFT Daniel Beltra, Spanish, born 1964, Agua Boa, Mato Grosso (Brasil) (detail), from the New Amazon Landscape series, August 2008, Epson Ultrachrome K3 pigment print on Hahnemuhle William Turner paper. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist; 2009.26.

Environmental Art

Holdings related to climate and the environment include contemporary photographs by Diane Burko, Edward Burtynsky, J Henry Fair, and Emmet Gowin, among others, as well as painted landscapes and studies for Christo's Running Fence. 

Japanese Prints

The Hood's collection of Japanese prints represents major print genres and themes, including actors (yakusha-e), fashionable women (bijinga), perspective (uki-e), landscape (fūkeiga), warriors (musha-e), Japan's 19th-century modernization (kaika-e), and early 20th-century prints (shin hanga). 

Ledger Drawings

Late 19th-century ledger drawings created by well-known warrior-artists such as Howling Wolf, Chief Killer, Short Bull, and Wooden Leg serve as a vital record of cultural survival and transformation among American Plains Indians. 

Orozco's Epic

On view in Dartmouth's Baker Library, José Clemente Orozco's extraordinary mural cycle The Epic of American Civilization (1932–34) is accessible during library hours. Museum holdings include hundreds of preparatory drawings.

Scientific Instruments

The scientific instruments collection documents the development of American academic science from the early days of the Republic through the Cold War, from astronomical instruments and surveying chains to optics apparatus and early student laboratory equipment.

Public Art on Campus

Public art on view throughout the Dartmouth campus includes works by Ellsworth Kelly, Kiki Smith, Mark di Suvero, Allan C. Houser, Beverly Pepper, George Rickey, Richard Serra, and Joel Shapiro, Ursula von Rydingsvard, among others.

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