North Carolina Museum of Art

Raleigh  |  www.ncartmuseum.org

Since the initial acquisition in February 1952 of 158 paintings, 2 sculptures, and 25 pieces of furniture and other decorative arts objects, purchased with a $1 million appropriation of state funds, the collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art has grown steadily. It includes major holdings in European painting from the Renaissance to the 19th century (enhanced in 1960 and 1962 by an extraordinary gift from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation of 71 works dating primarily from the Italian Renaissance and baroque periods), Egyptian funerary art, sculpture and vase painting from ancient Greece and Rome, American art of the 18th through 20th centuries, and international contemporary art. Other strengths include African, ancient American, and Jewish ceremonial objects.