Curatorial Departments

American Art

American paintings, sculpture, silver, furniture, miniatures, and stained glass from the colonial period to the mid-20th century, and the Harvard University Portrait Collection

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Western drawings from the 14th century to the present, including extensive American holdings and Italian Renaissance, 17th-century French, and 19th-century British drawings

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Western art from 1900 to the present, including European modernism, American abstraction, and contemporary works created with nontraditional materials

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European works through 1900, including Renaissance Italian, 17th-century Dutch, and 19th-century paintings, Bernini terracotta studies, British silver, and Wedgwood ceramics

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Fine art photographs, from daguerreotypes to works by modern and contemporary masters

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Prints from the 15th century to the present from Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Includes woodcuts, lithographs, screen prints, etchings, engravings, and digital prints

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Art of the German-speaking countries of Central and Northern Europe in all media and from all periods, including German expressionism and postwar and contemporary

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Ancient art from Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia spanning 5,000 years, including coins, gems, jewelry, bronzes, ivories, painted pottery, textiles, and mosaics

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East Asian art spanning more than 7,000 years, including Chinese archaic jades, Korean ceramics, Buddhist sculpture, and Japanese woodblock prints, paintings, and calligraphy

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Art of Western, Central, and South Asia (particularly Turkey, Iran, India) from the 9th century to the present, including calligraphy, figure studies, paintings, and drawings

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