The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College

Mary Stevenson Cassatt Feeding the Ducks, 1895		Peter Paul Reubens The Finding of Erichthonius, 1632-33

Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum is one of the finest college or university collections in the United States, with over 12,000 objects - including paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, drawings and photographs - that provide a comprehensive overview of the history of art from a variety of cultures.

Gustave Courbet The Castle of Chillon, Evening, c.1872		Horace Pippin Harmonizing, 1944

Notable strengths include seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, nineteenth and early twentieth-century European and contemporary American art, and Asian, European, and American works on paper.

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The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma

Canaletto St. Paul's Cathedral, 1754		George Stubbs A Zebra, 1763

The Yale Center for British Art houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. The collection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, rare books, and manuscripts reflects the development of British art, life, and thought from the Elizabethan period onward.

Sir Joshua Reynolds Mrs Abington as Miss Prue in Congreve's 'Love for Love,' 1771		Sir Frederick William Burton Dreams, c. 1861

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The Bridgeman Art Library is honored to be the chosen representative for all three museums comprising the Harvard University Art Collections:

The Fogg Art Museum

Edgar Degas Chanteuse de Cafe, c.1878		Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Odalisque with a Slave, 1839-40

The Fogg Art Museum, which opened to the public in 1895, is Harvard's oldest art museum. The collection illustrates the history of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, with particular strengths in Italian early Renaissance, British pre-Raphaelite, and nineteenth-century French art.

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Dockyard, Devonport, c.1825-29		Dante Charles Gabriel Rossetti The Lady of Pity, 1879

 The Busch-Reisinger Museum

Gustav Klimt Pear Tree, 1903

The Busch-Reisinger Museum is devoted to the art of the German-speaking countries and related cultures of central and northern Europe. Its collections of German Expressionism, Vienna Secession art, 1920s abstraction, and works by Joseph Beuys rank among the finest in the United States.

The museum has significant holdings of the work of artists associated with the Bauhaus, including the archives of the celebrated architect Walter Gropius, as well as important collections of late-medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque sculpture, 16th-century paintings, and porcelain.

 The Arthur M. Sackler Museum

Shakyh Zada Sa'di Visit to an Indian Temple miniature from a Bustan by Sa'di Bukhara, Western Uzbekistan, c.1531-32

The Arthur M. Sackler Museum houses superb collections of ancient, Islamic, Asian, and later Indian art. Among its treasures are the world's finest collections of archaic Chinese jades and Japanese surimono, as well as outstanding Chinese bronzes, ceremonial ancient weapons, and Buddhist cave-temple sculpture; Chinese and Korean ceramics; and Japanese woodblock prints, calligraphy, narrative paintings, and lacquer boxes. The Sackler is also home to paintings, drawings, and calligraphy from Iran, India, and Turkey, as well as to one of America's most important teaching collections of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern art, with significant holdings of Greek and Roman sculpture, Greek vases, and ancient coins.

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The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study: The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library

Amelia Earhart looking at charts, 1936		E. Jane Gay Kate McBeth with the women of the Nez Perce Women's Sewing Society, 19th c.

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America exists to document women's lives and endeavors. Its wealth of resources reveals the wide range of women's activities at home in the United States and abroad from the early nineteenth century to the present day. The library’s holdings include manuscripts, books, periodicals, and more than 90,000 photographs, ranging from casual snapshots to the works of professional photographers, which create an unparalleled visual record of private and public life.

Women at the newspaper office placing advertisements for work, New York, 1874		Women and children performing in suffrage tableau, 1913

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