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The American Wing

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Visitors to the American Wing will experience in more than 75 galleries on three floors varied art, design, and culture from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century, with some contemporary expressions, by a diverse array of artists from across North America. Since our founding in 1924, this curatorial department has evolved its collecting to include some 20,000 artworks in many mediums by African American, Asian American, Euro-American, Latin American, and Native American makers, affirming ever more inclusive definitions of American art and identity. These dynamic holdings include painting, sculpture, drawing, furniture, textiles, regalia, ceramics, basketry, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, as well as historic interiors and architectural fragments, produced by highly trained and self-taught artists, both identified and unrecorded. Monumental sculpture, stained glass, and architectural elements are installed in the Charles Engelhard Court; silver, gold, glass, and ceramics on the courtyard balconies. Narratives of American domestic architecture and furnishings are explored in twenty historical interiors, or period rooms. Changing rotations of painting, sculpture, works on paper, and textiles appear throughout the Wing.

Since its establishment in 1870, The Met has acquired significant examples of American art. A separate American Wing to display Euro-American domestic arts of the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries opened in 1924; painting and sculpture galleries and a skylit courtyard were added in 1980. A major renovation and reinstallation of the Wing’s space and collection occurred between 2002 and 2012, and, in 2024, the department marked its 100th anniversary with a new reinstallation highlighting its history and ongoing evolution.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is situated in Lenapehoking, homeland of the Lenape diaspora, and historically a gathering and trading place for many diverse Native Peoples, who continue to live and work on this island. We respectfully acknowledge and honor all Indigenous communities—past, present, and future—for their ongoing and fundamental relationships to the region.


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Dance object, Wood, pigment, vegetal fiber, and feathers, Yup'ik, Native American
Yup'ik, Native American
ca. 1900
Winter Scene in Moonlight, Henry Farrer  American, Watercolor and gouache on white wove paper, American
Henry Farrer
1869
Untitled (Cracked Watermelon), Charles Ethan Porter  American, Oil on canvas, American
Charles Ethan Porter
ca. 1890
Serape, Unidentified Navajo Artist, Wool, Diné/Navajo
Unidentified
ca. 1865
The Mountain Man, Frederic Remington  American, Bronze, American
Frederic Remington
Roman Bronze Works
1903, cast by March 1907
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Daniel Chester French  American, Bronze, American
Daniel Chester French
Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company
1879; cast 1906–7
Quirt handle, Elk antler and pigment, Eastern Plains, probably Meskwaki, Native American
Eastern Plains, probably Meskwaki, Native American
ca. 1860
Lamp, Louis C. Tiffany  American, Leaded Favrile glass and bronze, American
Louis C. Tiffany
Tiffany Studios
1904–15
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