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    The Museum of Modern Art, designed by Yoshio Taniguchi. View of Agnes Gund Garden Lobby. © 2004 Timothy Hursley.
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    The Museum of Modern Art, designed by Yoshio Taniguchi. Entrance at 53rd Street.
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Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, MoMA is dedicated to the conversation between the past and the present, the established and the experimental. The world’s finest collection of Modern and contemporary art includes some 150,000 works, from innovative European paintings and sculptures of the 1880s to today’s film, design and performance art. Collection highlights include Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night, Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Henri Matisse’s Dance (I), and Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans.

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Collection Highlights

  • Vincent van Gogh
    Portrait of Joseph Roulin, 1889
  • Dan Graham
    Child's Play, 2015 - 16
  • Adrian Ghenie
    The Lidless Eye (for Parkett no. 99), 2016 - 17
  • Robert Rauschenberg
    Bed, 1955
  • Yves Klein
    Anthropometry: Princess Helena, 1960
  • Kara Walker
    40 Acres of Mules, 2015
  • Henri Rousseau
    The Dream, 1910
  • Pablo Picasso
    Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907

Collection Highlights

  • Vincent van Gogh
    Portrait of Joseph Roulin, 1889
    oil on canvas, 25 3/8 x 21 3/4 in
    Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rosenberg, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Mr. and Mrs. Armand P. Bartos, The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection, Mr. and Mrs. Werner E. Josten, and Loula D. Lasker Bequest (all by exchange)
  • Dan Graham
    Child's Play, 2015 - 16
    two-way mirror glass, stainless steel and perforated steel, 97 1/2 × 211 × 180 1/2 in
    Gift of the Committee on Painting and Sculpture in honor of Cora Rosevear
  • Adrian Ghenie
    The Lidless Eye (for Parkett no. 99), 2016 - 17
    multiple of cut-and-pasted printed paper on printed paper, composition and sheet: 9 1/16 × 8 in
    Riva Castleman Endowment Fund
  • Robert Rauschenberg
    Bed, 1955
    oil, pencil, toothpaste, and red fingernail polish on pillow, quilt, and bedsheet mounted on wood support, 191.1 cm × 80 cm × 20.3 cm
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Leo Castelli in honor of Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Photo: Thomas Griesel © 2017 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
  • Yves Klein
    Anthropometry: Princess Helena, 1960
    oil on paper on wood, 198 cm x 128.2 cm
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wiesenberger. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
  • Kara Walker
    40 Acres of Mules, 2015
    charcoal on three sheets of paper, 264.2 cm × 548.7 cm
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of Candace King Weir, Agnes Gund, and Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine Farley, 2016. © 2017 Kara Walker
  • Henri Rousseau
    The Dream, 1910
    oil on canvas, 204.5 cm x 298.5 cm
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller
  • Pablo Picasso
    Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907
    oil on canvas, 243.9 cm x 233.7 cm
    Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso:Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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