Artists in the Collection

Guatemalan artist Carlos Mérida is best known for creating Modernist abstract art that integrated Latin American culture with 20th-century European painting.

Throughout his career, Anish Kapoor has been fascinated with exploring negative space through geometric, curvilinear, and reflected forms.

Shara Hughes is best known for her colorful, invented landscapes that reference multiple art movements, such as Symbolism, Fauvism, and Surrealism, and defy conventional depictions of light and space.

Louisa McElwain is best known for her abstracted landscapes characterized by strong use of color and bold strokes of thick paint.

Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the most significant artists of the 20th-century, renowned for her contributions to American Modernism. She produced more than 2,000 artworks throughout her career and is best known for her paintings of flowers, bones, New York City skyscrapers, and landscapes and subjects of the Southwest.

Kehinde Wiley’s figurative paintings and sculptures combine traditional and contemporary modes of representation and present young, urban, black and brown men as heroic, powerful, majestic, and sublime to critique notions of masculinity and physicality that are attributed to them.