Ancient
African
Asian
European: 1200-1800
American/European: 19th Century
American/European: 20th Century and Contemporary
Collection Sculpture
Ancient
The Chazen's collection of ancient art supports the curricula of several departments on campus, particularly art history and classics, as well as the social studies curriculum of sixth graders. It includes ten sculptures from ancient Egypt...
Asian
The Asian sculpture collection consists of approximately 107 pieces, the majority of which are from South or Southeast Asia. Broadly, they can be divided into three groups...
European: 1200-1800
This group is comprised of 21 objects. An English alabaster relief of the Lamentation and a northern Netherlandish Madonna and Child carved in wood are from the late medieval period, as are a mid-15th century Palmesel from Austria and two Spanish Romanesque figures. The reliefs attributed to...
American/European: 19th Century
The work of only six sculptors represents the 19th century. Three pieces are by French artists, Antoine-Louis Barye, Jean Léopold Morice, and Auguste Rodin, and three are by Americans...
American/European: 20th Century and Contemporary
Eighty-seven sculptures fall into this century. Antoine Bourdelle's Hercules the Archer bridges the 19th and 20th centuries as do Edward McCartan's Diana and Harriet Frishmuth's Allegra. The emerging aesthetic values of the new century...