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Exploring the Collection

The Museum of Modern Art has almost 200,000 works of art Other notable works include
by more than 18,000 artists, ranging from Post-Impressionist Jasper Johns’ Flag, Robert
classics to an unrivaled collection of modern and contemporary Rauschen berg’s First Landing
art, as well as fine examples of design and early masterpieces Jump, composed of urban
refuse, and Bed, which consists of
of photography and film. bed linen. The Pop Art collection
includes Roy Lichtenstein’s Girl
included in a strong with Ball and Drowning Girl, Andy
representation of Warhol’s famous Gold Marilyn
El Lissitzky, Monroe, and Claes Oldenburg’s
Malevich, and Rod- Giant Soft Fan.
chenko: De Stijl’s Works after about 1965 include
influence is seen pieces by Judd, Flavin, Serra, and
in paintings by Beuys, among many others.
Piet Mondrian,
such as Broadway
Boogie Woogie.
There is a large
The Persistence of Memory by the Surrealist body of work by
Salvador Dalí (1931) Matisse, such as
Dance (I) and
Red Studio. Dalí, Miró, and
1880s to 1940s Ernst feature among the
Painting and Sculpture bizarre, strangely beautiful
Paul Cézanne’s monumental Surrealist works.
The Bather and Vincent van
Gogh’s Portrait of Joseph Roulin
are two of the seminal works Postwar Painting
and Sculpture
in the museum’s collection of
late 19th-century painting. Both The extensive collection of
Fauvism and Expressionism are postwar art includes works by Man with a Hat by Pablo Picasso (1912),
well represented with works by Bacon and Dubuffet, and has a collage with charcoal
Matisse, Derain, Kirchner, and a particularly strong represent-
others, while Pablo Picasso’s ation of American artists. Drawings and Other
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon marks The collection of Abstract
a transition to the Cubist style Expressionist art, for example, Works on Paper
of painting. includes Jackson Pollock’s One More than 7,000 artworks
The collection also has an [Number 31, 1950], Willem de ranging in size from tiny
unparalleled number of Cubist Kooning’s Women, I, Arshile preparatory pieces to large
paintings, providing an Gorky’s Agony, and Red, Brown, mural-sized works are among
overview of a movement and Black by Mark Rothko. MoMA’s holdings. Many
that radically challenged drawings use conven tional
our perception of the materials, such as pencil,
world. Among the vast charcoal, pen and ink,
range are Picasso’s pastel, and watercolor.
Girl with a Mandolin, However, there are also
Georges Braque’s Man collages and mixed-media
with a Guitar and Soda, works composed of paper
and Guitar and Glasses ephemera, natural products,
by Juan Gris. Works by and man-made goods.
the Futurists, who The collection provides
brought color and an overview of Modernism,
movement to Cubism from the late 19th century
to depict the dynamic to the present day, including
modern world, include movements such as Cubism,
Dynamism of a Soccer Dadaism, and Surrealism.
Player by Umberto Drawings by famous and
Boccioni, plus works well-established artists, such
by Balla, Carrà, and as Picasso, Miró, and Johns, are
Jacques Villon. The exhibited alongside a growing
geometric abstract art The Bather, an oil painting by French Impressionist number of works by talented
of the Constructivists is Paul Cézanne emerging artists.

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