The Studio Museum in Harlem’s permanent collection represents more than 700 artists, spans 200 years of history, and includes nearly 9,000 works of art. We are thrilled to be in the early stages of a long-term project to share our collection online and prompt a new era of exploration and presentation.

The Studio Museum in Harlem’s permanent collection is a record of the growth of the institution and its activities, and includes nearly 9,000 works of art, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, watercolors, photographs, videos and mixed-media installations.

The web-based thematic series Collection in Context provides fresh perspectives on artworks in the Studio Museum’s permanent collection. Members of the Museum’s curatorial department draw out themes found within a diverse range of works, providing new ways of looking at Black artistic production since the early nineteenth century.

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Year Range: 18042024

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A black bronze sculpture with a geometric base that tapers upward into a slender biomorphic form that comes to two points like bull horns.
Natural Things Part II, #1, 1997Oil on canvas17 x 18 in. (43.2 x 45.7 cm) Frame: 18 1/4 x 19 1/4 x 1 in. (46.4 x 48.9 x 2.5 cm)The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Burton Aaron2022.10.3
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