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Collections

American Arts
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This impressive holding
contains some 5,500 paintings and
sculptures dating from the colonial
period to 1950. In addition, paintings
and works on paper are on loan
from the Terra collection, and
there is a range of decorative arts,
including furniture, glass, and
ceramics from the 18th century
through to the present. The silver
collection is especially noteworthy.
Arthur Rubloff Collection
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of Paperweights
This fabulous and unusual
assemblage numbers in excess
Two Sisters, by Pierre August Renoir, a of 1,400 paperweights, making it
highlight of the European Collection one of the largest of its kind in
the world. It showcases colorful
European Collection
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periods, designs, and techniques.
Arranged chronologically,
and spanning the Middle Ages The paper weights mostly
through 1950, this originate from 19th-century
prodigious collection France, though some
includes a significant were made in America
array of Renaissance and the United Kingdom.
and Baroque art and Displays also reveal
sculpture. However, its the secrets of how
main draw is a body of paperweights are made.
nearly 400 Impressionist
African and
and Post-Impressionist Arthur Rubloff 4
paintings. Instrumental in paperweight Amerindian Art
its creation was Bertha A wide variety of artifacts,
Honoré Palmer who acquired over including sculptures, ceramics,
40 Impressionist works (largely furniture, textiles, masks, jewelry,
ignored in France at the time) for the beadwork, and metalwork, make up
1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. this relatively small, but interesting

African and Amerindian exhibits

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