Fine Art Collection September 10, 2008

The Museum has collected over 10,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and photographs, most acquired since 1965 when the Museum's mission was expanded to include this area. The collection has a New Jersey focus within the context of American art history. Its strengths lie in works by the American modernists associated with Alfred Steiglitz, American abstract artists of the 1930s and 1940s, contemporary American art, the complete graphic outputs of Ben Shahn and Jacob Landau and a comprehensive collection of works by 19th and 20th-century African-American artists which is nationally based.