The Everson dedicates itself to the collection of American art, ceramics, and video art.
The I.M.Pei-designed building, a sculptural work of art in its own right, houses approximately 11,000 works of art. These include 19th- and 20th-century American paintings, sculpture, drawings, video, graphics, and one of the most extensive collection of international ceramics in the nation.
Notable are the landscapes of New York State by New York State artists, especially second-generation Hudson River School, tonalist, and impressionist painters, and also regionalist and early modernists.