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Museums Art

The University Museums Art Collection encompasses works of Western art from antiquity to the 21st century, the collection is particularly strong in 20th century art of the U.S. (photography, drawings, prints, paintings and sculpture), pre-Columbian ceramics and Inuit art.

Museums African American Art

The African American art collection includes a survey of prints gifted by the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia, photographs by P.H. Polk, and works by Wilmington artist Edward L. Loper, Sr. (1916-2011). Recent additions include work by Felrath Hines, Floyd Coleman, Peter Williams and the Nigerian-American artist Fatimah Tuggar.

Museums Minerals

The Mineralogical Museum housed in Penny Hall displays approximately 350 specimens, including minerals from the remarkable collection of Irénée du Pont. 

Joseph Stella

Joseph Stella, born Giuseppe Michele Stella (1877-1946), was an Italian-born Futurist painter, and is also associated with the American Precisionist movement of the 1910s–1940s.

George Grey Barnard

Sculptor George Grey Barnard (1863-1938, United States) colleciton consists of approximately 880 works on paper. Some objects are relative to finished or conceptualized sculptural projects and/or monuments, as well as figural sketches, site plans, and studies.

Abraham Walkowitz

Abraham Walkowitz (1878-1965) was in the forefront of the modernist movement in the United States. He was one of the first artists in America who utilized abstraction and/or color for its own properties in creating artworks reflecting his support of, and philosophy surrounding this new direction in art production. 

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