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The museum’s collection includes more than 27,000 artworks dating from antiquity to the present and created by artists from around the world. Select objects from the collection are below and all objects are accessible online through the Five College database. Click on the images below to learn more, including if the work is currently on view.

new acquisitions

Dyson, Scalar Scalar

Scalar Scalar (#3 Gulf of Mexico Extraction Black)

Torkwase Dyson2018

Purchased with the Kathleen Compton Sherrerd, class of 1954, Acquisition Fund for American Art

Portrait of the Artist, Seated at Her Easel, Amile-Ursule Guillebaud

Portrait of the Artist, Seated at Her Easel

Amile-Ursule Guillebaudc. 1820–1845

Purchased with a gift from Peter Soriano and Nina Munk, class of 1988, and the Museums Acquisitions Fund

Flag for Nina from the installation Flagship, 1975. Ree Morton

Flag for Nina from the installation Flagship

Ree Morton1975

The Nina Yankowitz Collection of Women’s Art 1970s Onward

Leonard, The Personal is the Political

The Personal is the Political

Joanne Leonard 1990

Gift of the artist

Steckel, Mom art

Portrait from the series Mom Art

Anita Steckel1963

Gift of the Estate of Anita Steckel

Sandrart, Gabrielle Charlotte Patin

Portrait of Gabrielle Charlotte Patin

Susanna Maria von Sandrart1682

Purchased with the
Elizabeth Halsey Dock, class of 1933, Fund

Eleven-Headed Kannon

Eleven-headed Kannon

UnknownEdo period (1615–1868), 17th–18th century

Purchased with the Carroll and Nolen Asian Art
Acquisition Fund.

Motherland, Pushpamala N.

Motherland (After calendar painting by Jesudoss)

Pushpamala N.2004–2008

Purchased with the Carroll and Nolen Asian Art Acquisition
Fund

Bricher, Seascape

Seascape

Alfred Thompson Bricher1874

Gift of Lucinda
Siegler Brown, class of 1973, in memory of Eleanor Adams Hopkins, class of 1916, and Sylvia
Hopkins Siegler, class of 1946.

The Virgin Adoring the Christ Child with the infant Saint John the Baptist by Lorenzo di Credi

The Virgin Adoring the Christ Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (“The Portinari

Lorenzo di Credica. 1485-90

Colorful amorphous blobs that resemble plants

A Liquid Echo

Hayal Pozanti2023

Gift of Katy and Kyle Miller

Colorful amorphous blobs that look like abstract plants

A Liquid Echo

Hayal Pozanti2023

Gift of Katy and Kyle Miller

selected artworks

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The collection of the Smith College Museum of Art includes more than 27,000 artworks dating from antiquity to the present
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May, Post Break-up
Shizu Saldamando
2011 | Oil, gold leaf, and collage on wood panel
Cross
19th century | Silver

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