The Department of Modern Art is responsible for paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from around the world created between 1901 and 1970 (with the exception of works from Germany and Northern and Central Europe, which are in the Busch-Reisinger Museum). For many decades, this collection grew only as a result of gifts. Since 1997, when the first curator of modern art was appointed, a strategic acquisitions policy has been in place together with a dynamic program of temporary exhibitions.
Staff
Jessica Ficken, Staff Assistant, Ph: 617-496-1822Eve Lambert, Theodore Rousseau Curatorial Fellow,
Ph: 617-495-1680
Department fax: 617-496-2359
Modern Collection Highlights
The modern collection comprises approximately 1,250 works by artists from around the world from 1901 to 1970.
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Franz Kline, (58 1/8 x 77 1/2 in.) Gift of Lois Orswell, 1971.121
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Artists represented in the collection include:
Mlton Avery, Pierre Bonnard, Constantin Brancusi, Georges Braque, Alberto Burri, Alexander Calder, Marsden Hartley, Willem de Kooning, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Gaston Lachaise, Fernand Léger, Morris Louis, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Kenneth Noland, Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Auguste Rodin, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Walter Sickert, and Frank Stella, among others.
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Constantin Brancusi, (65 1/8 x 16 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.) Gift in part of William A. Coolidge, Joseph H. Hazen Foundation, Inc., Mrs. Max Wasserman; Purchase in part, Francis H. Burr Memorial and Alpheus Hyatt Funds, 1968.2.A-C
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