European: 1300-1600
European: 1600-1800
American/European: 19th Century
Joseph E. Davies Collection
American/European: 20th Century
Hollaender Collection
Collection Paintings
European: 1300–1600
Seventeen paintings fall into this period. Of these, twelve are Italian; five come from The Netherlands. Fourteen of these paintings came to the University of Wisconsin...
European: 1600-1800
Over half of the 75 paintings in this group are Netherlandish. Included are works that are both important and rare. Most remarkable of the Dutch paintings perhaps...
American/European: 19th Century
The 29 American paintings in this group include a portrait by Gilbert Stuart, a Hudson River valley scene by William Louis Sonntag , an intimate scene of a boating party by Albert Bierstadt, a very fine oil sketch by Sanford Robinson Gifford...
Joseph E. Davies Collection
Joseph E. Davies, American ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1936 through 1938, received his AB from the University of Wisconsin in 1898 and his LLB in 1901. While in Russia, Ambassador Davies avidly collected...
American/European: 20th Century and Contemporary
The 20th-century painting collection is rich in number (over 400) and variety. There are 186 paintings by American artists, 170 by Europeans...
Hollaender Collection
Alexander Hollaender, an alumnus of the university (BA 1929, MA 1930, PhD 1931), and his wife, Henrietta, collected paintings, sculpture, and works on paper for more than half a century. With characteristic independence of mind...