The Permanent Collection

The Johnson Museum has a global art collection, with special strengths in the arts of Asia, European and American prints and photographs, and contemporary art.

For more detailed information on the collection or for permission to reproduce images of works in our collection, please call 607 254-4546.

This online Handbook of the collection features a sampling of the works in the permanent collection of the Johnson Museum. The printed version of the Handbook, which contains more entries, is available for purchase; please call 607 255-6464 for more information.

For our online database using the Luna Insight browser, please click here. This project is conducted jointly with the Cornell University Library's Institute for Digital Collections, and this link will take you to their server.

 

 

 The Art of: Asia | Africa | Europe | Americas

THE ART OF ASIA

China, Han Dynasty | Pair of Dancers
China, Liu Song Dynasty | Seated Buddha

Sheng Maoye | Autumn Landscape
Wu Li | The Lute Song

Gao Qipei | Quail
Japan, Kofun Period | Head of a Man
Japan, Kamakura Period | Descent of Amida Nyorai
Suzuki Kiitsu | The Poetess Ono no Komachi

Utagawa Hiroshige | Horikiri Iris Garden
Japan, Meiji Period | Fisherman with Basket and Net
Morino Hiroaki | Oval Vase
India | Yakshi with a Love Letter in Her Hand

South India | Seated Shiva
Kangra School | A King Pays Homage to Rama

Cambodia, Koh Ker | The Goddess Uma
Indonesia, Java | Standing Avalokitesvara

THE ART OF AFRICA Egypt, Middle Ptolemaic | Relief Depicting Two Figures
Mali, Bamana | Komo Society Headdress
Ivory Coast, Baule | Baboon

THE ART OF EUROPE Lydos | The Recovery of Helen by Menelaos
Rome | Head of Caesar Augustus
Roman Syria | Palmyrene Head
Master Pietro di Alberigo | Romanesque Portal Lioness with Cubs
France | Madonna and Child
Albrecht Dürer | Melencolia I
Flanders | Seated Saint Anne, with the Virgin and Child

Italy | Portrait of an Ecclesiastic
Hendrik Goltzius | The Farnese Hercules
Leonaert Bramer | Judith in the Tent of Holofernes
David Bailly | Vanitas Still Life with Portrait
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn | Woman Sitting Half-Dressed beside a Stove
Frans Post | Brazilian Landscape
Isaac de Moucheron | Villa d'Este, Tivoli

William Hogarth | Portrait of Daniel Lock, F.S.A.
Louis-Marin Bonnet | Head of Flora
Cornelis van Spaendonck | Still Life of Flowers
Francisco de Goya | The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
John Constable | Netley Abbey
Hill and Adamson | Scottish Fishwives, Washaday Group
Philibert Perraud | Portrait of a Nun
Julia Margaret Cameron
| Our Twin Stars

Charles-François Daubigny | Fields in the Month of June
Adolphe William Bouguereau | The Goose Girl
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | Le Divan Japonais

Claude-Emile Schuffenecker | Portrait of Julien Leclercq and his Wife
Jean Metzinger | Sailboats
Emil Nolde | South Sea Islander
Giorgio de Chirico | Andromache

Otto Dix | Woman Lying on a Leopard Skin
Henri Matisse | Portrait of Alexina Matisse
Henri Matisse | The Horse, the Rider, and the Clown
Jean Dubuffet | Smiling Face
Gerhard Richter | Untitled

THE ART OF THE AMERICAS Olmec, Mexico | Were-Jaguar
Albert Bierstadt | Swiss Mountain Scene
Thomas Eakins | Walt Whitman in Camden, New Jersey
George Inness | Landscape (Figures in a Field)
Elihu Vedder | The Sorrowing Soul between Doubt and Faith
George Luks | Subway
Robert Henri | Portrait of Carl Sprinchorn
Childe Hassam | Rocks and Sea, Isles of Shoals
Edward Hopper
| Portuguese Church in Gloucester
Stuart Davis | Place des Vosges, No. 2

Arthur G. Dove | Alfie's Delight
Reginald Marsh | Grand Tier at the Met
Thomas Hart Benton
| The Artists' Show
Jacob Lawrence
| Occupational Therapy No.2
Saul Baizerman
| Adriana

Robert Frank | Cafeteria—San Francisco
Lee Bontecou | Flit
Robert Rauschenberg | Migration