Color Field Painting - Sculpture - African American Art - Figurative Expressionism
Old Master and Modern Drawings and Prints - Pattern and Decoration
Photography

One of the great strengths is the museum's collection of Modern and Contemporary art. When today's museum began as a gallery in 1959, Charles Pollock, brother of the artist Jackson Pollock and a faculty member of the MSU Art Department, was instrumental in acquiring works by leading abstract Color Field painters including Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Helen Frankenthaler. Currently these and many others cannot be displayed due to a lack of gallery space.

Morris Louis (American, 1912-1962)
Alpha-Theta, 1961
Acrylic resin on canvas, 104½ x 147½ inches
Gift of Mrs. Marcella Louis Brenner, 67.32

 

Theodoros Stamos (American, born Greece, 1922-1997)
Low Sun, Black Bar II, 1963
Oil on canvas, 68 x 44 1/8 inches
MSU purchase, 64.11

Charles Pollock (American, 1902-1988)
#95, 1967
Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 50 inches
Gift of George F. Schwelinger in memory of Ella Schwelinger, 86.18

return to top