{"collections":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Collection Source ID","value":"377"},"image":{"label":"Collection Image","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/53027/full"},"notes":{"label":"Collection Notes","value":"The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University owns more than 10,000 works of art. As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum created this online database to make its collections accessible to a wide audience. This is an ongoing project, so please check back periodically to browse new entries. Some data may change as a result of ongoing research."},"name":{"label":"Collection Name","value":"RECENT ACQUISITIONS"},"id":{"label":"Collection ID","value":"489"},"collectionLink":{"label":"Collection Link","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/collections/489/objects/xml"}},{"sourceId":{"label":"Collection Source ID","value":"360"},"image":{"label":"Collection Image","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/25270/full"},"notes":{"label":"Collection Notes","value":"The Nasher Museum's African holdings number around 300 objects, with strengths in works from Nigeria, particularly from the Yoruba peoples and a group of 172 rare masks and objects from Liberia donated to Duke in 1974 by Dr. George Harley, a Duke-trained physician, missionary and anthropologist, who was one of the first persons to collect masks and objects of the Mano and to bring them out of Africa beginning in the 1920's. His influential articles published in the Papers of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, \"Notes on the Poro in Liberia\" (1941) and \"Masks as Agents of Social Control in Northeast Liberia\" (1950) remain standard references. The Duke University Special Collections Library is the repository of Harley's archival papers, dating from 1925-1960, which document his experiences in Africa.The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University owns more than 10,000 works of art. As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum created this online database to make its collections accessible to a wide audience. This is an ongoing project, so please check back periodically to browse new entries. Some data may change as a result of ongoing research."},"name":{"label":"Collection Name","value":"AFRICAN"},"id":{"label":"Collection ID","value":"481"},"collectionLink":{"label":"Collection Link","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/collections/481/objects/xml"}},{"sourceId":{"label":"Collection Source ID","value":"365"},"image":{"label":"Collection Image","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/176/full"},"notes":{"label":"Collection Notes","value":"The Duke Classical Collection, begun in 1964 by Duke University's Department of Classical Studies, combined with the Nasher Museum's holdings now comprises over 300 works from Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Etruria that span in date from 2800 BCE to 300 CE. In 2006, the Nasher Museum was given an important collection of 224 Greek works, mostly ceramics, but also bronze, gold, amber and a few small marble pieces, ranging from the Cycladic and Mycenaean periods to the Hellenistic Greco-Roman era.The Duke Classical Collection was published in 1994 by Duke Classics professor Keith Stanley (A Generation of Antiquities: The Duke Classical Collection 1964-1994<\/i>, now accessible online<\/a>). The catalogue for the 2006 gift, titled The Past is Present<\/i> and edited by Duke Professors Sheila Dillon and Carla Antonaccio, was published in November 2011 and is currently available for purchase in the Nasher Museum store or from Duke Press.The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University owns more than 10,000 works of art. As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum created this online database to make its collections accessible to a wide audience. This is an ongoing project, so please check back periodically to browse new entries. Some data may change as a result of ongoing research."},"name":{"label":"Collection Name","value":"ANTIQUITIES"},"id":{"label":"Collection ID","value":"483"},"collectionLink":{"label":"Collection Link","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/collections/483/objects/xml"}},{"sourceId":{"label":"Collection Source ID","value":"367"},"image":{"label":"Collection Image","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/41858/full"},"notes":{"label":"Collection Notes","value":"The ancient American holdings of 3,300 objects encompass nearly every culture of pre-Columbian Latin America, from Mexico to Argentina, and represents a wide range of chronological periods, with over a hundred pieces dating as early as the first millennium BCE. The collection consists mainly of ceramics and painted pottery, but includes some examples of sculpture, painted wall fragments, textiles, gold and jade items, body ornaments, and a selection of musical instruments. Strongest in Mayan art, the museum also owns an impressive group of over 175 Peruvian textiles, several as early as 600-300 BCE, as well as early ceramics from Moche, Paracas and Nasca cultures in Peru.The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University owns more than 10,000 works of art. As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum created this online database to make its collections accessible to a wide audience. This is an ongoing project, so please check back periodically to browse new entries. Some data may change as a result of ongoing research."},"name":{"label":"Collection Name","value":"ART OF THE AMERICAS"},"id":{"label":"Collection ID","value":"484"},"collectionLink":{"label":"Collection Link","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/collections/484/objects/xml"}},{"sourceId":{"label":"Collection Source ID","value":"363"},"image":{"label":"Collection Image","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/5412/full"},"notes":{"label":"Collection Notes","value":"The Nasher Museum owns a representative group of works by Hudson River School painters and other nineteenth-century American landscape painters, one painting and 185 wood engravings by Winslow Homer, and works by many of the Ashcan School artists. This collection has significantly grown thanks to a gift in 2010 from a Duke Alumnus that includes works by Edward Potthast, Charles Burchfield, Thomas Hart Benton and Andrew Wyeth.The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University owns more than 10,000 works of art. As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum created this online database to make its collections accessible to a wide audience. This is an ongoing project, so please check back periodically to browse new entries. Some data may change as a result of ongoing research."},"name":{"label":"Collection Name","value":"ART OF THE UNITED STATES"},"id":{"label":"Collection ID","value":"482"},"collectionLink":{"label":"Collection Link","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/collections/482/objects/xml"}},{"sourceId":{"label":"Collection Source ID","value":"369"},"image":{"label":"Collection Image","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/53127/full"},"notes":{"label":"Collection Notes","value":"The museum holds a small collection of traditional Asian art. In 1973, Col. and Mrs. Van R. White donated a group of Ming and Qing Dynasty jades and porcelains, which forms the core of the Asian collection. Twelve Japanese wood block prints are from the Edo period by well-known artists such as Utamaro, Hiroshige and Hokusai, among others. The collection includes a 19th-century Indian miniature and several Arabic illustrated manuscript pages. Recently, the museum has acquired works by contemporary Chinese artists, including Hong Lei and Zhang Dali.The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University owns more than 10,000 works of art. As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum created this online database to make its collections accessible to a wide audience. This is an ongoing project, so please check back periodically to browse new entries. Some data may change as a result of ongoing research."},"name":{"label":"Collection Name","value":"ASIAN"},"id":{"label":"Collection ID","value":"485"},"collectionLink":{"label":"Collection Link","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/collections/485/objects/xml"}},{"sourceId":{"label":"Collection Source ID","value":"371"},"image":{"label":"Collection Image","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/51269/full"},"notes":{"label":"Collection Notes","value":"The Nasher Museum\u2019s collection of European art contains over 500 objects from the early Renaissance to the Modernist period (c. 1400 \u2013 c. 1900). Strengths of the collection include Baroque painting and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century prints and drawings. Object types include bronze and marble sculpture, wooden architectural fragments and decorative arts, metalwork, and panel painting, among others. Several works in this collection were also part of the original group of medieval and Renaissance period works acquired from the estate of Ernest Brummer in 1966 (see also the Medieval collection). Additional highlights include objects in alabaster and leather, as well as a full illuminated book of hours (c. 1490). Visitors are able to explore the Book of Hours online<\/a>.The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University owns more than 10,000 works of art. As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum created this online database to make its collections accessible to a wide audience. This is an ongoing project, so please check back periodically to browse new entries. Some data may change as a result of ongoing research."},"name":{"label":"Collection Name","value":"EUROPEAN"},"id":{"label":"Collection ID","value":"486"},"collectionLink":{"label":"Collection Link","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/collections/486/objects/xml"}},{"sourceId":{"label":"Collection Source ID","value":"373"},"image":{"label":"Collection Image","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/28586/full"},"notes":{"label":"Collection Notes","value":"The museum's significant Medieval and Renaissance holdings have been described as the \"best university medieval collection in America\" (Charles Little, Metropolitan Museum of Art) and \"one of the six best medieval collections overall in America\" (Neil Stratford, Keeper Emeritus of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum). Duke University's original Museum of Art was founded with the acquisition of medieval and Renaissance period works from the estate of Ernest Brummer in 1966. Expanded since then, the collection now numbers nearly 90 works from across Europe, ranging in date from the ninth through the fifteenth centuries, with a focus on the Romanesque and Gothic periods. It includes sculptures in stone, bronze, wood, and ivory, significant architectural fragments, stained glass, leather, textiles, and illuminated manuscript pages and a full illuminated book of hours. Visitors are able to explore the Book of Hours online<\/a>.The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University owns more than 10,000 works of art. As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum created this online database to make its collections accessible to a wide audience. This is an ongoing project, so please check back periodically to browse new entries. Some data may change as a result of ongoing research."},"name":{"label":"Collection Name","value":"MEDIEVAL"},"id":{"label":"Collection ID","value":"487"},"collectionLink":{"label":"Collection Link","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/collections/487/objects/xml"}},{"sourceId":{"label":"Collection Source ID","value":"375"},"image":{"label":"Collection Image","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/21688/full"},"notes":{"label":"Collection Notes","value":"This collection is the youngest at the Nasher Museum, but represents the museum's current primary growth area. Since opening in 2005, the Nasher Museum has focused on modern and contemporary art with particular emphasis on global, emerging artists of color. The collection strategically echoes the museum's distinguished exhibition program, capitalizes on the expertise of curatorial staff and Duke faculty, and reflects the museum's interest in the art and culture of the African diaspora. The collection includes works in a variety of media \u2013 painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video and installation.The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University owns more than 10,000 works of art. As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum created this online database to make its collections accessible to a wide audience. This is an ongoing project, so please check back periodically to browse new entries. Some data may change as a result of ongoing research."},"name":{"label":"Collection Name","value":"MODERN & CONTEMPORARY"},"id":{"label":"Collection ID","value":"488"},"collectionLink":{"label":"Collection Link","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/collections/488/objects/xml"}},{"sourceId":{"label":"Collection Source ID","value":"15271"},"image":{"label":"Collection Image","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/29463/full"},"notes":{"label":"Collection Notes","value":"The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University owns more than 10,000 works of art. As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum created this online database to make its collections accessible to a wide audience. This is an ongoing project, so please check back periodically to browse new entries. Some data may change as a result of ongoing research."},"name":{"label":"Collection Name","value":"NUMISMATICS"},"id":{"label":"Collection ID","value":"495"},"collectionLink":{"label":"Collection Link","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/collections/495/objects/xml"}},{"sourceId":{"label":"Collection Source ID","value":"442"},"image":{"label":"Collection Image","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/28612/full"},"notes":{"label":"Collection Notes","value":"Photography is one of the fastest growing areas of the museum\u2019s collection, with works from the 1830s to today, primarily by American and European photographers. These include photographs by Hill and Adamson, Peter Henry Emerson, Berenice Abbott, Ilse Bing, Robert Capa, Aaron Siskind, Mike Disfarmer, Harry Callahan, William Eggleston, Carrie Mae Weems, Vik Muniz, Shirin Neshat, Rineke Dijkstra, Latoya Ruby Frazier, Zanele Muholi, and series by Ed Ruscha, Paul McCarthy, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, and Robin Rhode, among others.The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University owns more than 10,000 works of art. As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum created this online database to make its collections accessible to a wide audience. This is an ongoing project, so please check back periodically to browse new entries. Some data may change as a result of ongoing research."},"name":{"label":"Collection Name","value":"PHOTOGRAPHY"},"id":{"label":"Collection ID","value":"494"},"collectionLink":{"label":"Collection Link","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/collections/494/objects/xml"}},{"sourceId":{"label":"Collection Source ID","value":"383"},"image":{"label":"Collection Image","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/45749/full"},"notes":{"label":"Collection Notes","value":"View all works covered by the Provenance Research Project<\/a>As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University conducts and publishes research on the art in its collections. One important component of that research is the documentation of a work's provenance, or previous history of ownership before it was acquired by the museum. In December 1999 the American Association of Museums (AAM) issued its Guidelines Concerning the Unlawful Appropriation of Objects During the Nazi Era, asking museums to identify works in their collections with incomplete provenances for the years 1933 to 1945. During this period many artworks were unlawfully seized by the Nazis from public and private collections. The Nasher Museum participates in the AAM\u2019s provenance website, the Nazi-Era Provenance Information Portal (NEPIP.org). The Nasher Museum also subscribes to the Art Loss Register (www.artloss.com) and regularly uploads information on works in the museum's collections with incomplete provenances.The Nasher Museum\u2019s aim is to compile all known provenance information for works in its collection created before 1946, transferred after 1932 and before 1946, and which were, or could have been, in continental Europe during the Nazi Era. This information will be posted on this site.Gaps in provenance are common and do not in themselves constitute evidence of looting from archeological sites or seizure by the Nazis. It is often the case that records do not survive from half a century ago. Provenance research is an ongoing process, and the Nasher Museum welcomes any information that the public has on the ownership history of works in its collections. For further assistance, please contact: Katherine Werwie, Ph.D., Waldron Family Associate Curator (katherine.werwie@duke.edu)."},"name":{"label":"Collection Name","value":"PROVENANCE RESEARCH"},"id":{"label":"Collection ID","value":"492"},"collectionLink":{"label":"Collection Link","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/collections/492/objects/xml"}},{"sourceId":{"label":"Collection Source ID","value":"379"},"image":{"label":"Collection Image","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/26129/full"},"notes":{"label":"Collection Notes","value":"From 1992 to 2003, the museum built a significant collection of modern and contemporary paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by Russian artists. The concentration on post-Soviet works by Russian émigrés makes it a unique collection in the U.S. The collection includes pre-Soviet era, Soviet era, and works by both state-recognized and non-conformist artists. The largest component of the collection consists of second-generation non-conformist artists from the Brezhnev era into the post-Soviet period, including artists such as Komar and Melamid. The collection is currently undergoing scholarly evaluation.The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University owns more than 10,000 works of art. As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum created this online database to make its collections accessible to a wide audience. This is an ongoing project, so please check back periodically to browse new entries. Some data may change as a result of ongoing research."},"name":{"label":"Collection Name","value":"RUSSIAN"},"id":{"label":"Collection ID","value":"490"},"collectionLink":{"label":"Collection Link","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/collections/490/objects/xml"}},{"sourceId":{"label":"Collection Source ID","value":"381"},"image":{"label":"Collection Image","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/54662/full"},"notes":{"label":"Collection Notes","value":"The works on paper collection numbers over 3000 works. Most are prints with a small number of drawings and photographs.The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University owns more than 10,000 works of art. As part of its mission, the Nasher Museum created this online database to make its collections accessible to a wide audience. This is an ongoing project, so please check back periodically to browse new entries. Some data may change as a result of ongoing research."},"name":{"label":"Collection Name","value":"WORKS ON PAPER"},"id":{"label":"Collection ID","value":"491"},"collectionLink":{"label":"Collection Link","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/collections/491/objects/xml"}},{"sourceId":{"label":"Collection Source ID","value":"385"},"image":{"label":"Collection Image","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/5117/full"},"notes":{"label":"Collection Notes","value":"The ongoing responsibilities of caring for the collection includes the research and continual reassessment of the museum's holdings in order to continually refine and improve the quality, focus and appropriateness of the collection to best serve the museum's mission.Judicious deaccessioning - the removal and disposal of works from the collection by sale or transferred as a gift to another more appropriate public institution - is a key step in collection care and development. Any funds received from the disposal of works are used for purchasing other works of art for the museum's collection.The Nasher Museum agrees with and supports the current deaccessioning guidelines developed by the Association of American Museum Directors as part of \"Professional Practices in Art Museums.\" In keeping with those guidelines, the Nasher Museum makes current deaccession information available to the public through this site. Due to the ongoing nature of this process, the works included here do not represent the entirety of those deaccessioned by the Nasher Museum or the former Duke University Museum of Art."},"name":{"label":"Collection Name","value":"DEACCESSIONED ART"},"id":{"label":"Collection ID","value":"493"},"collectionLink":{"label":"Collection Link","value":"https://emuseum.nasher.duke.edu/collections/493/objects/xml"}}],"count":15}