The Collection at the BMA

Featured Works

The Sigh of the True Cross, Mel Chin, pine, olive, ash, mud, steel, ox gut and teff

The Sigh of the True Cross

Zozobras en el Jardin (Rumors in the Garden), Juan Uslé, vinyl, dispersion and pigment on canvas

Zozobras en el Jardin (Rumors in the Garden)

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Carved stone mask with deep oval eyes, arched brows, broad nose, deeply carved, slightly open mouth. Ear flanges pierced.

Mask

  • Teotihuacan culture, Pre-Columbian
  • stone
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

Sakyamuni seated in meditation right before his Enlightenment

The Ascetic Sakyamuni

Les Portraits de MM. de Béthune jouant avec un chien (Portraits of Marquis Béthune’s Children Playing with a Dog), François-Hubert Drouais, oil on canvas

Les Portraits de MM. de Béthune jouant avec un chien (Portraits of Marquis Béthune’s Children Playing with a Dog)

Vertical black and white lines of paint over book pages.

Letter from Birmingham Jail #2 (after the Rev. Dr. M. L. King, Jr.)

Female Musician, from a Tomb Figure Procession

Crazy quilt. Twisted herringbone stitch variation

Crazy Quilt

A thangka depicting the Buddhist view of the universe. A large image of Yama clutching the wheel of existence. Depicts six realms of existence, endless cycle of birth and death, twelve causes of rebirth with Buddha Sakyamuni and attendants.

The Wheel of Existence

Tall, hard-paste porcelain vase of campana shape, the upper body with white biscuit bas-relief figures against a glazed green ground, the figures include King Friedrich Augustus I of Saxony (1750-1827) dressed as a Roman emperor; he is flanked by the figures of Justice on his right, and Minerva on his left; on the opposite side of the vase is the figure of a Roman vestal, representing the state of Saxony, pouring oil on sacrificial flames on an altar inscribed with the dates of the king's reign; at her feet lies an overflowing cornucopia as well as war trophies and emblems of the seven liberal arts; the bulbous lower body heavily gilt with two handles and a series of applied acanthus leaves of white biscuit porcelain, the foot with central decorative element of green glazed porcelain with small, applied, white biscuit leaves, the lower splayed foot a series of channels

Vase

Modeled head of Old God (Huehueteotl) with sagging cheeks, wrinkled brow, drooping eyelids, prominent ears, open mouth with missing front teeth, protruding tongue.

Head of Old God (Huehueteotl)