As Mississippi's largest art museum, the Mississippi Museum of Art is home to some very extraordinary works of art. And it's not simply the best in local and regional art that we have on display.
Every year, some of the best exhibitions in the nation come to Jackson. American Art compirses approximately 75% of the permanent collection. With an emphasis on mid-nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the Museum has amassed a meaningful survery of paintings by Albert Bierstadt, Arthur Davies, Robert Henri, George Inness, georgia O'Keeffe, Thomas Sully and James Whistler. European , Asian and Ethnographic Art comprises approximately 25% of the permanent collection.
The museum has works representing important aspects of art history, including works on paper by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso and Claude Renoir. Collections of Asian objects, pre-columbian ceramics, African artifacts, Japanese prints, British eighteenth and nineteenth century portraits and Oceanic artifacts demonstarte the diversity of the collection.
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