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With more than 45,000 artworks in our collection, there's always something new to discover. Dive in with some of our curators' picks!

Asian Art

Basket of light brown with waving form along the bottom and a twist in the center. The top is spread out in a fan-like form.
Fukugawa, Japanese. Lidded Imari/Kutani Koro, 1868–1912. Porcelain with over glaze enamel and gilding, 13 3/16 x 10 7/16 x 8 15/16 in. (33.5 x 26.5 x 22.7 cm). Gift of Drs. Walter S. Melion and John M. Clum, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2017.112
Two geese in flight and several geese in the reeds at bottom of image.
Kim Eun-Ho (Korean, 1892–1979). Geese. Ink on paper, 48 5/8 x 11 7/8 in. (123.5 x 30.2 cm). Purchased with funds from the Thomas T. Solley Endowed Fund for Asian Art, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2018.2

European and American Art

An abstract sculpture of several short textured pipe-like clay forms attached to one another.
Jorgen Haugen Sorensen (Danish, born 1934). Portrait De Monsieur Trompe De Brume, 1960. Terracotta, 35 7/16 x 29 1/2 in. (90 x 74.9 cm). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. G. David Thompson, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 62.32
A sculpture made of iron that consists of abstract forms that resemble machinery parts. The sculpture stands on a base of three legs.
Shinkichi Tajiri (American, 1923–2009). Samurai, 1954. Iron, 33 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 16 1/4 in. (85.1 x 49.5 x 41.3 cm). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. G. David Thompson, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 62.22

Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

This image depicts a rock formation in Yosemite National Park with a gibbous moon in the sky above.
Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984). Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, 1960. Gelatin silver point, 19 x 14 1/2 in. (48.3 x 36.8 cm). Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 76.65.5
The nude figures of Adam and Eve, ther genitals covered, stand before a forested wood. Between them the serpent is coiled around the Tree of Knowledge. Numerous animals populate the foreground and the background.
Albrecht Durer (German, 1471–1528). Adam and Eve, 1504. Engraving on paper, 9 3/4 x 7 9/16 in. (24.8 x 19.2 cm). William H. Conroy Memorial, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 71.27
A woman is sitting on the edge of a bed in front of a mirror, pinning up her hair. She sits on a bedspread with pink and cream stripes.
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926). The Coiffure, Study of Nude, 1890–1891. Color aquatint and drypoint on paper, 14 3/8 x 10 9/16 (36.5 x 26.8 cm). Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 76.145

Oceanic Art

A unknown object with two heads, one large and one small, at the two ends of a wooden pole. The eyes are inlaid with shell.
Maori. Object with Two Carved Heads. Wood, haliotis shell, and flax, 9 1/4 x 2 3/4 x 5 1/4 in. (23.5 x 7 x 13.3 cm). Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2010.19
A section from a men's ceremonial house with a figure depicted abstractly with white, red, yellow, and shades of black pigment.
Abelam. Painting for a Ceremonial House, ca. 1940. Palm frond petiole, bamboo, pigment, and fiber, 69 1/4 x 33 1/2 x 3 7/16 in. (175.9 x 85.1 x 8.7 cm). Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 63.62

African Art

Clay vessel with wide shoulders and a short, cylindrical neck with a slightly flared rim. The exterior of the body of the vessel is decorated with an elaborate pattern of circles and diagonal, pointed ovoid shapes.
Ian Garret (Zulu, born 1971). Vessel, 2007. Clay, 9 1/4 x 10 5/8 in. (23.5 x 27 cm). Museum purchase with funds from the Class of 1949 Endowed Curatorship for the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2007.17
A container with a small, hollow compartment at the center, and two rounded shapes extending at diagonal angles from the center, attached by wooden arms that are indented in the middle. There is an ellipsoidal wooden loop around the central compartment, and a smaller ring at the top of this loop.
Tsonga, Zulu, Nguni. Snuff Container. Wood, 6 1/2 x 10 3/4 x 2 5/8 in. (16.5 x 27.3 x 6.7 cm). Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2010.29

Indigenous Art of the Americas

A jar with geometric shapes and natural forms in black, white, and red.
Acoma Pueblo. Water Jar, ca. 1900. Clay and slip, 10 3/4 x 12 in. (27.3 x 30.5 cm). Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Henry R. Hope, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 61.83
A red clay jar with a wide, rounded base that tapers upward in a long, cylindrical neck ending in a slightly flaring mouth. There is a serpent motif on the lower third of the jar.
Maria Martinez (American, 1887–1980) and Julian Martinez (American, 1897–1943), Pueblo. Jar, before 1923. Clay, 14 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (36.5 x 24.1 cm). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolf Gottfried, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 83.35.1

Art of the Ancient World

This small pitcher is made to resemble a duck. Geometric patterns, reminicent of wings, are painted in red and black on both sides. The spout has a beak-like projection and two eyes. A handle extends along the back.
Cypriot. Flask in the Form of a Duck, 760–600 BCE. Terracotta, 4 x 8 in. (10.2 x 20.3 cm). Henry Radford Hope Fund, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 59.67
Figural decoration wraps around a tall, narrow vessel. A winged boy drives a chariot that is drawn by two swans and a deer runs below the swans. A woman stands on the ground behind the chariot.
Greek. Red-Figure Perfume Bottle (Alabastron) with Eros (Cupid) in Swan-drawn Chariot, 350–300 BCE. Terracotta, added color, 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm). Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 78.18

Contemporary Art

Hanging wall sculpture made of aluminum bottle caps woven together with copper wire.
El Anatsui (Ghanaian, born 1944). Untitled, 2009. Aluminum bottle caps and copper wire, 77 x 88 in. (195.6 x 223.5 cm). Gift of Dr. Jane Fortune, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2019.1

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