Search the Collection
The Smart Museum of Art's permanent collection currently includes over 10,000 objects. Only about a third of the database's record's have a corresponding image online. If an accession number is highlighted, an image is available. Enter a word, fragment (e.g., myster retrieves instances of mystery, mysterious, and mystere) or phrase in the fields below. Diacritics have been stripped for simpler searching (e.g., enter durer to search for Dürer). You may use upper or lower case letters; searches are case insensitive. Also, you can search using Boolean Operators (OR and AND) in any field.
Boolean Operators
The OR operator and the AND operator (note the uppercase)
are available in all fields. For example, you may search for Degas or
Pissaaro in the Artist Field by entering:
degas OR pissarro
The AND operator works within a single field. Thus searching for
american AND western
in the Curator's Object Class Field will
find records with both american and western
in any order in the Curator's Object Class Field.
Tips: You can mix fields and logical operators. Try a search
for
Curator's Object Class: classical
Registrar's Object Type: utilitarian
Curator's Object Classes
You may search the Curator's Object Class field for the following terms shown in alphabetical order with frequencies.
1902 AMERICAN 400 ASIAN 206 CHINESE 717 CLASSICAL 2623 EUROPEAN 11 INDIAN 141 JAPANESE 18 KOREAN 6 PRE-COLUMBIAN 5 SOUTHEAST 4959 WESTERN
Curator's Object Types
You may search the Curator's Object Type field for the following terms shown in alphabetical order with frequencies.
15 AGE 32 ANTIQUE 476 ARTS 30 BLACK-FIGURE 40 BONES 15 BRONZE 1 BRUSH 1 CELADON 707 CERAMICS 32 CHRISTIAN 52 CORINTHIAN 87 CYPRIOTE 476 DECORATIVE 1 DRAWING 764 DRAWINGS 32 EARLY 1 ENGRAVED 1 ETCHING 15 ETRUSCAN, 1 FLOOR 121 FURNITURE 12 GEOMETRIC 120 GLASS 1 GLAZE 267 GREEK 5 GROUND 33 HELLENISTIC 51 LAMPS 33 LATE 1 LEGAL 2 LITHOGRAPH 166 METALWORK 50 MIDDLE 82 MISCELLANEOUS 4 MOSAIC 172 NUMISMATICS 40 ORACLE 463 PAINTING 3827 PAPER 370 PHOTOGRAPHS 1 PORTRAIT 11 POST 393 POST-1900 184 PRE-1900 2 PRINT 2702 PRINTS 50 PROTO- 68 RED-FIGURE 32 ROMAN, 354 SCULPTURE 1 STONEWARE 25 TEXTILES 1 WALL 5 WHITE 1 WITH 3 WOODCUT 3827 WORKS
Registrar's Object Types
You may search the Registrar's Object Type field for the following terms shown in alphabetical order with frequencies.
43 ARCHITECTURAL 5 CLOISONNE 7 COLLAGE 732 DRAWING 262 FRAGMENT 121 FURNITURE 152 INVESTIGATE 172 JEWELRY 210 MEDALLION 22 MEDIA 152 MISC 68 MISCELLANEOUS 22 MIXED 5 MOSAIC 210 NUMISMATIC 540 PAINTING 369 PHOTOGRAPH 2700 PRINT 2 PRINTS 438 SCULPTURE 25 TEXTILE 220 UTILITARIAN 535 VESSEL
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