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WCMA has substantial holdings in the ancient art of Egypt, Assyria,
Greece and Rome. Almost 700 works, 6 percent of the collection,
represent art of world cultures, with a strength in south Asian
work. With the 1993 bequest of 60 important works of Indian
art, WCMA's collection of Rajput and Mughal paintings of the
17th to 19th centuries, already significant, has become the
foremost college museum collection of such art. The collection
also includes fine examples of 17th-century Chinese painting
and calligraphy and a collection of African art and artifacts,
developed in conjunction with specific college courses. The
African collection, started in the 1970s, has been enlarged
by a significant number of gifts.
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Browse representative works from the collection. Select
the artist's name to view a representative work:
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Deccan
(or North India, Mughal)
Captive Elephant, ca.
1600
opaque watercolor on paper, heightened with
gold
Williams College Museum of Art, Gift of Wendy
Findlay
83.7 |
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Gumani
The Spring Hunt at Kota |
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Assyrian
King Ashur-nasir-pal II |
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Greek;
Attic
Black-figured Oinochoë |
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Roman
Marble Figure Draped in a Toga |
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Zaire;
Bakuba
Helmut Mask (mwash a mbooy) |
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