The Collection at the BMA

Featured Works

Vertical monoprint in shades of blue and purple depicts black and white photographic images of man with two women superimposed on whale fin with hole at top.

Grandma; We Who Are Your Children

In this painted landscape, two figures, a man and a woman, rest in the left foreground, peering across a body of water to the opposite bank, where animals graze and another couple rests on the ground. In the background, to the left, boats are moored before Italian ruins, while snow-capped mountains rise in the distance. The entire scene is bathed in a warm peach-pink light emanating from the left.

A Dream of Italy

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Portrait of the van der Graeff Family, Jan Mijtens, oil on canvas

Portrait of the van der Graeff Family

Portrait of a Gentleman (Self-Portrait?), Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, oil on canvas

Portrait of a Gentleman (Self-Portrait?)

Study for head and bust of Columbus with marginal pencil sketches; verso bears loose, unfinished sketch

Study for “Landing of Columbus”

Pack Camel, from a Tomb Figure Procession

Linguist Staff Finial (okyeame poma), Akan group, Asante people, Ghana, African, wood and gold leaf

Linguist Staff Finial (okyeame poma)

Le Village d'Éragny (The Village of Éragny), Camille Pissarro, oil on canvas

Le Village d’Éragny (The Village of Éragny)

Scene of dark ocean with pale blue sky; black smoke billows from surface of ocean near horizon line. Black v-shaped darts flow in lines from background to foreground; prominent red arrows at bottom of painting point toward horizon line; pink lines terminating in arrows bend in different directions. A crow flies, trailing a ribbon of red; white gulls fly toward the horizon line, accompanied by white arrows.

Crow booming the One Big Water, Gulls flying away

Large, highly detailed sculpture of four-armed Siva with skull-adorned diadem, holding a double-sided (damaru) drum in upper proper left hand, lower proper left arm embracing the Goddess seated upon his lap. His zebu bull is by his pendent proper right leg. Parvati (as Gauri) with a iguana vahana as well as Ganesha riding his rat (lower left) and Kartikeya riding his peacock (lower right). Face-of-glory (kirtimukha) at mandorla's peack with waved cloud/foliate motifs.

Uma-Mahesvara (Siva and Parvati) with Ganesha and Kartikeya

Jar with cover, both covered entirely with clay "spikes."

Covered Vessel

Unframed diptych, two separate 40X32 inch photographs

Braxton McKinney and Lavone Thomas