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The Responsive Eye: Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art
September 9, 2003–December 14, 2003
Special Exhibition Galleries, 1st floor
Formed over the last half century, the Ralph T. Coe Collection of American Indian Art comprises representative pieces from most of the diverse Native North American regions and periods known today. Two hundred works, dating from 3000 B.C. to the present, are included in the exhibition. Objects range from authoritative masks and
headdress frontlets of painted wood made by the peoples of the Pacific Northwest, to splendidly ornamented deerskin shirts and smoking pipes of the High Plains, to the delicate and carefully wrought beaded and quilled works of the Northeast.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
All works in the exhibition are courtesy of Ralph T. Coe.
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