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The Collection Galleries

About the Pavilion

The Collection Galleries feature rotating installations of the Nasher Museum’s extensive holdings of historical art. Eight galleries, as well as the entrance to Wilson Pavilion, are dedicated to the museum’s strengths, which represent a brief history of human creativity from different times and parts of the world. Just beyond the entrance, visitors will find the Incubator, a flexible space for rotating student- and faculty-curated exhibitions. Visitors are invited to return again and again to The Collection Galleries, where Nasher curators continue to refresh the galleries with gems from the collection. The museum’s contemporary collection is showcased through rotating exhibitions within a separate pavilion. Works from the contemporary collection create new conversations and connections among historical works in The Collection Galleries.
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Modern & Contemporary

Artwork featured in gallery: Colin Quashie, SlaveShip Brand Sardines, 2012.
Artwork featured in gallery: Thomas Hirschhorn Necklace, CNN, 2002.
Artwork featured in gallery: Christian Marclay, Breathless III, 2000.

Inscrutable Objects
June 01 – December 11, 2024

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Art of the United States

Artwork featured in gallery: Sonya Clark, Unraveling, 2015.
Artwork featured in gallery: Thomas Hart Benton, First Crop, 1944.
Artwork featured in gallery: Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Hot Rhythm, 1961. Oil on canvas. Gift of Mara Motley, M.D., and Valerie Gerrard Browne in honor of Professor Richard J. Powell and C.T. Woods-Powell and in memory of Archie Motley. © Nasher Museum. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion..

American Stories/American Myths
June 15, 2024 – July 20, 2025

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Art of the Andes

Artwork featured in gallery: Joel Gaitan, Pobre Diabla, 2022 and Quimbaya (Colombia), Seated Male Figure, 1000-1400 CE.
Artwork featured in gallery: Moche (Peru), Vessel with rodent and corn, 100–500 CE.
Artwork featured in gallery: Nasca (Peru), Vessel with fisherman and net, 200 BCE–300 CE.

This gallery features ceramics, textiles, metalwork, and carvings produced by cultures across the Andes region, a 4,500-mile-long mountain range on the Pacific Coast of South America.

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Ancient World

Artwork featured in gallery: Polygnotos, attributed, Greek (Athenian), Red-figure calyx krater (detail), 460-450 BCE. Ceramic, 18 1⁄8 x 18 5⁄16 x 18 5⁄16 inches (46 x 46.5 x 46.5 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum, the Duke Classical Collection, gift of Dr. and Mrs. James H. Semans; the Thomas and Virginia B. Semans Teaching Collection..
Artwork featured in gallery: Cypriot, Beardless male votary (detail), 6th – 5th century BCE. Limestone, 47 3⁄4 × 20 × 8 inches (121.3 × 50.8 × 20.3 cm). Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription..
Artwork featured in gallery: Roman (Palestinian), Double unguentarium (detail), 3rd - 4th century CE. Glass, 4 1⁄8 x 2 3⁄16 x 1 1⁄8 inches (10.5 x 5.6 x 2.8 cm)..

This gallery features works from ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman cultures.

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Arts of Africa

Artwork featured in gallery: This image shows a carved wood very stylized African female figure seated with a large head..
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Artwork featured in gallery: 1920's carving of African figures carved in a wood door. Figures are performing various tasks in horizontal rows. Every other row is a patterned row that separates the rows of figures. One main figure is riding a bicycle and smoking, other figures seem to be feeding animals and getting ready for a battle..

This gallery presents many of the Nasher museum’s best masks, figural sculpture and beadwork from Liberia, Nigeria and other parts of the African continent, including works from the renowned George Harley collection.

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Medieval European Art

Artwork featured in gallery: Installation view of the Medieval European Art gallery.
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This gallery displays important architectural sculpture, devotional objects and stained glass from the Romanesque and Gothic periods.

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European Art

Artwork featured in gallery: Jan van Kessel I, attributed, Creation of the Birds and Fishes, c. 1650.
Artwork featured in gallery: Anonymous M1, Landscape (after Jan van Goyen), c. late 17th–early 18th century.
Artwork featured in gallery: Pierre Andrieu, Tigre Couché (Tiger Lying Down), 19th century.

The European Art Gallery (c. 1400–1900) illustrates Western cultural and aesthetic changes from the Renaissance to the dawn of the modern period through a variety of objects, paintings and sculptures.

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