The 17,500–object collection is one of the most important in the southeastern states with strengths in Renaissance and Baroque, American, Ancient and Native American, and Asian art. 41 Renaissance and Baroque paintings and sculptures came from the national Samuel H. Kress distribution.
The Americas Collection includes 2,000 works surveying art in the Americas during the 19th and 20th centuries, while the Asian collection holds Chinese, Korean and Japanese ceramics, painting and sculpture.