The Bell
Collection
The Bell maintains a collection of more than 7,000 works of art, dating from the 16th century to the present, with particularly rich holdings in 20th and 21st century works on paper. Recent acquisitions include works by Deana Lawson, Sadie Barnette, and Martine Gutierrez.
Collection
The Bell maintains a collection of more than 7,000 works of art, dating from the 16th century to the present, with particularly rich holdings in 20th and 21st century works on paper. Recent acquisitions include works by Deana Lawson, Sadie Barnette, and Martine Gutierrez.
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The Bell's collection can be accessed online. Search the full permanent collection or filter the permanent collection by object type: prints, drawings, photographs, and painting and sculpture.
ARTISTS IN THE COLLECTION
Drawings by Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler complement contemporary works by Rina Banerjee, Sean Scully, Michelle Grabner, Denise Green, and Chitra Ganesh. Seminal works, such as Lee Bontecou’s Untitled,1962 sculptural relief and Blue Horizon, Frank Stella’s important transitional painting from 1952 are highlights of the painting and sculpture collections.
The encyclopedic print collection runs the gamut of western art from Durer and Aldegrever to Callot and Rembrandt, Hogarth and Goya, Daumier and Manet, Kollwitz and Kirchner, and to Warhol, Schnabel, Mark Dion and Ghada Amer. Particularly strong in mid-century documentation, the photography collection features significant work by Walker Evans, Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Larry Clark, and Danny Lyon, as well as recent additions by Deana Lawson, Sadie Barnette, and Martine Gutierrez.