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Permanent Collection
American Art comprises approximately 75% of the permanent collection. With an emphasis on mid-nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the Museum has amassed a meaningful survery of paintings by Albert Bierstadt, Arthur Davies, Robert Henri, George Inness, Georgia O'Keeffe, Thomas Sully and James Whistler. Photographs and works on paper include works by Thomas Hart Benton, Alexander Calder, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Andy Warhol and Eudora Welty. Works by John DeAndrea, Malvina Hoffman, Paul Manship and Rueben Nakian highlight a growing collection of sculpture. Native American baskets and more than 170 Southeast outsider art objects- including works by Annie Dennis, Howard Finster and African-Americans Earl Simmons, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Sarah Mary Taylor and Mose Tolliver- are important parts of the collection.
Included in the collection of American Art is the Mississippi Collection, which comprises more than 25% of the permanent collection. The Mississippi collection includes a comprehensive selection of works by Mississippians, including late-nineteenth century painter G. Ruger Donoho, photographer/ writer Eudora Welty and folk artists Theora Hamblett and Sultan Rogers. The Museum also collects contemporary works by Mississippi natives such as William Dunlap, Sam Gilliam, Burney Imes, Valerie Jaudon, Ken Marlow and Tom Rankin. The Museum fulfills its mission to collect and exhibit art related to Mississippi's artistic heritage with important collections of works by natives Walter Anderson, Marie Hull, Mary Katherine McCravey, George Ohr, Edgar Parker and more than 280 works by William Hollingsworth. The Mississippi collection also includes works of and about Mississippi by artists who visited the state like Alfred Eisenstadt, Lewis Hine and Russian-born Simka Simkhovitch, who painted for the Works Progress Administration.
European, Asian and Ethnographic Art comprises approximately 25% of the permanent collection. The museum has works representing important aspects of art history, including works on paper by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso and Claude Renoir. Collections of Asian objects, pre-columbian ceramics, African artifacts, Japanese prints, British eighteenth and nineteenth century portraits and Oceanic artifacts demonstarte the diversity of the collection. These varied groups (spanning 3,000 years: 700 BC to 2000 AD) enable the Museum to preserve and exhibit works related to humankind's shared artistic heritage and play an important role in Affiliate Network Exhibitions.
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