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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. A breakthrough work by New York artist Fred Wilson from 1990, Colonial Collection, anchors the Arts of Africa Gallery. A painting by Kehinde Wiley is on view in the European Art Gallery.
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Modern & Contemporary

Artwork featured in gallery: Ravelle Pillay.
Artwork featured in gallery: The Penitent Magdalene.
Artwork featured in gallery: John James Audubon Carolina Pigeon.

(Un)Natural: Constructed Environments
September 23, 2023 – January 14, 2024

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Incubator

Artwork featured in gallery: Nicholas Monro.
Artwork featured in gallery: Salvador Dalí, Obsession of the Heart (The World).
Artwork featured in gallery: Utagawa Kuniyoshi.

Act as if you are a curator: an AI-generated exhibition
September 09, 2023 – January 14, 2024

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Art of the United States

Realism and Surrealism in the United States, 1930 – 1960

On view through June 5, 2022

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Art of Peru

This gallery features ceramics, textiles, metalwork and carvings produced by ancient cultures across what is known as present-day Peru.

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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
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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

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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