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Film Department
With a collection of over 22,000
films and four million stills, the
collection offers a wide range
of programs, including
retrospectives of individual
directors and actors, films
in specific genres, and
American Indian Theme II by Roy experimental work, as well as
Lichtenstein (1980) a broad range of other
exhibitions. Film conservation is
a key part of the department’s
Prints and work and many of today’s top
Illustrated Books directors have donated copies Film still of Charlie Chaplin and Jackie
All significant art movements of their films to help fund it. Coogan in The Kid (1921)
from the 1880s onward are
represented in this extensive
collection, which provides a Architecture
fascinating overview of printed
art. With more than 50,000 and Design
items in the department’s The Museum
holdings, there are wide- of Modern Art
ranging examples of historical was the first
and contemporary printmaking. art museum to
Works created using traditional include utilitarian
media such as etchings, objects in its
lithographic prints, screen prints, collection. These
and woodcuts are displayed range from
alongside pieces created by Sunday on the Banks of the Marne, photographed by Henri such household
more experi mental techniques. Cartier-Bresson in 1939 appliances as
There are some particularly stereo equipment,
fine examples of works by practitioners, most notably furniture, lighting, textiles, and
Andy Warhol, who is widely Friedlander, Cindy Sherman, glassware to industrial ball
considered to be the most and Nicholas Nixon. bearings and silicon chips.
important print maker of the The photographers have Architecture is represented
20th century. There are also covered an extensive variety in the collection through
many illustrations and prints of subject matter in both colour photographs, scale models,
by other artists including and black and white: delicate and drawings of buildings
Redon, Munch, Matisse, landscapes, scenes of urban that have been or might have
Dubuffet, Johns, Lichtenstein, desolation, abstract imagery, been built.
Freud, and Picasso. and stylish portraiture, including Graphic design is shown
some beautiful silver-gelatin in typography and posters.
print nudes by the French Larger exhibits that look as
Photography
Surrealist Man Ray. Together, if they belong in a museum
The photography collection they form a complete history of transportation include a
begins with the invention of of photographic art and Willys-Overland Jeep and
the medium around 1840. represent one of the finest the Bell helicopter, which
It includes pictures by fine collections in existence. dates from 1945.
artists, journalists, scientists,
and entrepreneurs, as well
as amateur photographers.
Among the highlights
of the collection are
some of the best-
known works by
American and
European photo-
graphers including Atget,
Stieglitz, Lange, Arbus,
Steichen, Cartier-Bresson,
and Kertesz. There is also a
range of contemporary Reclining rocking chair of steam-bent beech and cane by Gebrüder Thonet (c.1880)

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