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What is in a name?

What is in a name?

This year, the Museum’s Andrew W. Mellon Research Specialist for Understudied Collections in Native American art, Dr. India Young, has been considering histories of collecting and currents in digital repatriation.
Considering Sheldon Jackson: A Summer Intern Project

Considering Sheldon Jackson: A Summer Intern Project

Julia Grummitt, 2018 Art Museum summer intern in the Art of the Ancient Americas department, explored the photographs and objects collected by Reverend Dr. Sheldon Jackson in the late nineteenth century, which are now stored both in Princeton University Library’s...
New on View: Photographic Views of the Imperial Asylum at Vincennes

New on View: Photographic Views of the Imperial Asylum at Vincennes

The album Photographic Views of the Imperial Asylum at Vincennes (1861) by the celebrated French artist Charles Nègre is now on view in the galleries of European art from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Peter Scheemaeckers the Elder's Virgin and Child

Peter Scheemaeckers the Elder's Virgin and Child

A large terracotta sculpture portraying the Virgin and Child, by Flemish artist Peter Scheemaeckers the Elder, has entered the collections.
Austrian or German Crucifix

Austrian or German Crucifix

An exquistely detailed figure of the crucifix, carved in fruitwood, recently entered the Museum's collections.
Jonathan Richardson's Self-Portrait

Jonathan Richardson's Self-Portrait

A self-portrait of English artist Jonathan Richardson recently entered the Museum's collections.
Last Look | History on View in the Gallery of American Art

Last Look | History on View in the Gallery of American Art

Hung together in the gallery of American art, Dorthea Lange’s portrait, a recent acquisition, and an Ansel Adams landscape long held in the collection present this historical period through two distinctly different representations.
Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Bequest

Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Bequest

Gillett G. Griffin, curator of Pre-Columbian and Native American art, emeritus, bequeathed more than 3,500 works of art to the Princeton University Art Museum in 2016. This story explores highlights of his bequest from several collecting areas.
Clarence H. White and His World Opens at the Portland Museum of Art

Clarence H. White and His World Opens at the Portland Museum of Art

Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895 – 1925 opened in Maine at the Portland Museum of Art, where it is on view through September 16.
Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Bequest

Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Bequest

Gillett G. Griffin, curator of Pre-Columbian and Native American art, emeritus, bequeathed more than 3,500 works of art to the Princeton University Art Museum in 2016. This series will explore the highlights of his bequest, beginning with the art of...