From Claude Monet and Mary Cassatt to Childe Hassam and Vincent van Gogh.
COLLECTION
Modernism in America
The idea of modernity a hundred years ago and how US artists responded to it.
Collection Highlights
Caravaggio
Saint John the Baptist
Frederic Edwin Church
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives
Willem de Kooning
Woman IV
Fitz Henry Lane
"Starlight" in Harbor
Henri Matisse
Woman Seated before a Black Background
Thomas Moran
Castle Rock, Green River, Wyoming
Berthe Morisot
Under the Orange Tree
John Singer Sargent
Mrs. Cecil Wade
Vincent van Gogh
Olive Trees
Featured Collections
Native American Art
This growing collection at the Nelson-Atkins includes works by Native peoples from a variety of regions and time periods, including the Arikara, Navajo, and Ojibwa artists represented here.
American Art
Focusing on 19th century painting and the first half of the 20th century, the collection traverses all the various shifts in styles, subjects, and interpretations that took place.
Asian Art
Drawing from both the major Chinese and Japanese collections at the Nelson-Atkins, these selections comprise some of our key masterworks.
