Collection Highlights
As Gertrude Stein remarked, the Columbus Museum of Art houses an outstanding collection of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American and European modern art. This collection includes major works by Monet, Matisse, Picasso, Renoir, Hopper and O'Keeffe and other spectacular examples of Impressionism, German Expressionism, and Cubism. Also recognized for extraordinary regional collections, the Museum boasts the largest public collection of woodcarvings by Columbus folk artist Elijah Pierce as well as the world's largest repository of paintings and lithographs by Columbus native George Bellows, who is widely regarded as the finest American artist of his generation.
Since 2001, the Museum has celebrated growth in its holdings through such acquisitions as a significant collection entitled The Photo League, which consists of 170 photographs by 69 artists including Berenice Abbott, W. Eugene Smith and Weegee, and the Philip J.and Suzanne Schiller Collection of American Social Commentary Art 1930-70.
