About the Collection
Founded in 1974 with a gift from the Smart Family Foundation and designed by the renowned architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, the Smart Museum of Art houses a permanent collection of over 10,000 objects, spanning five millennia of both Western and Eastern civilizations. Particular strengths of the collection include European and American modern and contemporary works, East Asian art, and works on paper from all periods. Other highlights of the collection include ancient Greek vases and Chinese bronzes; medieval sculpture; Old Master paintings; Frank Lloyd Wright furniture; Tiffany glass; modern sculpture by Degas, Matisse, and Rodin; and 20th-century paintings and sculpture by Mark Rothko, Arthur Dove, Diego Rivera, Henry Moore, and Richard Hunt.
Smart Museum Online Database Project
Search the online database of the Smart Museum's permanent collection including over 10,000 objects.
Provenance Research Project
Information about research into the ownership history of paintings and sculpture in the collections created in Europe prior to the end of World War II.
Rights and Reproductions
Information about obtaining an image of an object in the Smart Museum's permanent collection.