Post-War (1946-1989)
Highlights include works from the 1950s and 60s by Ivan Albright, Jean Dubuffet, Ibrahim el-Salahi, Yayoi Kusama, Roberto Matta, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Edward Ruscha, and Dorothea Tanning; a large archive of the works on paper by Sonia Landy Sheridan; noteworthy prints in a variety of media; and a large collection of works by documentary photographers and photojournalists, including Dmitri Baltermants, Susan Meiselas, Ed Grazda, and James Nachtwey.
Levi Qumaluk, Inuit / Canadian, 1919 - 1997 | Arctic | Eastern Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Second Scene from the Legend of Shokkoaluk and his Wife (Shokkoaluk is standing pushing his wife below...
1960
160.34.14537
Mannumi Shaqu, Inuit / Canadian, 1917 - 1997 | Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Boy Holding a Dog
collected 1953-1962
168.94.24433
Twamie Okaitok, Inuit / Canadian, 1900 - 1963 | Arctic | Eastern Arctic | Canadian Inuit
An Inuk Holding a Beluga Whale Tail and a Knife
1950s
168.94.24437
Duffy Wilson (Ha-Da-Noh; Wilmer Francis), Tuscarora / American, 1925 - 2002 | Tuscarora (Haudenosaunee) | Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) | Northeast Woodlands | Woodlands
Untitled (Eagle)
1979
2006.44.1
T. C. Cannon, Ka'igwu / Caddo / Choctaw / American, 1946 - 1978 | Caddo | Choctaw | Ka'igwu (Kiowa) | Southern Plains | Plains
Collector No. 5
about 1977
2008.57
Thomas Eakins, American, 1844 - 1916
Ecorche: Relief of a Horse (Josephine)
modeled about 1882; cast 1979
2009.72.1
Karoo Ashevak, Inuit / Canadian, 1940 - 1974 | Central Arctic | Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Untitled (Spirit Figure)
about 1970-1974
2011.25.1
Karoo Ashevak, Inuit / Canadian, 1940 - 1974 | Arctic | Central Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Untitled (Shaman)
about 1970-1974
2011.25.2
Seepee Ipellie, Inuit / Canadian, 1940 - 2000 | Arctic | Eastern Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Bird with Spread Wings
1983
2011.64.15
Martha Ittulukatnak, Inuit / Canadian, 1912 - 1981 | Arctic | Central Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Ayaya
1972
2011.64.16
Helen Kalvak, Inuit / Canadian, 1901 - 1984 | Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Chasing Away an Evil Spirit Who Came When the People were Resting
1972
2011.64.20
Jessie Oonark, Inuit / Canadian, 1906 - 1985 | Arctic | Central Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Untitled (Spirit Barges)
about 1975
2011.64.25
Jessie Oonark, Inuit / Canadian, 1906 - 1985 | Arctic | Central Arctic | Canadian Inuit
The Great Hunter
1975
2011.64.30
Abraham POV, Inuit / Canadian, 1927 - 1994 | Arctic | Eastern Arctic | Canadian Inuit
An Inuk Women Processing Sealskin
1982
2011.64.35
Leon Polk Smith, Cherokee / American, 1906 - 1996 | Cherokee | Southeast
Inch Squares No. 3
1948-1949
2012.17
Fritz Scholder, Luiseño / American, 1937 - 2005 | Luiseño (Luiseno) | California culture
Untitled
about 1979-1980
2012.20
Arctic | Davidiakluk Alasua Amittu, Inuit / Canadian, 1910 - 1976 | Eastern Arctic | Canadian Inuit
A Woman Carrying A Butchered Animal
about 1960
2014.17.10
Arctic | Akeeaktashuk, Inuit / Canadian, 1898 - 1954 | Eastern Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Man in Parka Holding a Spear
about 1952
2014.17.11
George Twok Aden Ahgupuk, Iñupiaq / American, 1911 - 2001 | Arctic | Iñupiaq | Western Arctic
Untitled (Caribou Herd in a Winter Landscape)
about 1950s
2014.17.4
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, active 1958-2009 | Christo (Christo Vladimirov Javacheff), American (born Bulgaria), 1935 - 2020 | Jeanne-Claude Marie Denat, French (born Morocco), 1935 - 2009
Running Fence: Project for Sonoma and Marin Counties, California
1976
d.977.149.1
John Sloan, American, 1871 - 1951
A Roof in Chelsea, New York
about 1941, with additions in 1945 and 1951
p.946.12.2
Xavier Esqueda, Mexican, born 1943
The Relatives of Icarus (Los Parientes de Icaro)
about 1965
p.965.105
Fritz Scholder, Luiseño / American, 1937 - 2005 | Luiseño (Luiseno) | California culture
Dartmouth Portrait #17
1973
p.974.11
Fernando Botero, Colombian, 1932 - 2023
La Mesa del Carnicero (The Butcher Table); Still Life with Pig's Head
1969
p.975.72
Jean Dubuffet, French, 1901 - 1985
Topographie au nid de pierres (Topography With a Nest of Stones)
1958
p.975.99
Philomé Obin, Haitian, 1892 - 1986
La Fossette vers 1897: Les Bourgeois du Cap Revenant de leurs Habitations (The "Pit" (a Cap-Haitien...
1958
p.976.205
Ivan Albright, American, 1897 - 1983
The Vermonter (If Life Were Life There Would Be No Death)
1966-1977
p.985.31
Harry Fonseca, Maidu / American, 1946 - 2006 | Maidu | California culture
Coyote Woman in the City
1979
p.989.10
Elizabeth Murray, American, 1940 - 2007
Untitled, number 9 of 13 from Her Story: A book of thirteen original graphics by Elizabeth Murray for...
1988-1990
pr.2000.28.9
Shiko Munakata, Japanese, 1903 - 1975
Taka no onna no saku (Hawk Woman)
1955; printed 1958
pr.959.40
Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuit / Canadian, 1927 - 2013 | Arctic | Canadian Inuit
Dogs See the Spirits
1960
pr.961.115