This innovative and comprehensive exhibition encompasses Anna Richards Brewster's (1870-1952) works in oil, watercolor, gouache, and pen designs for book-illustration. It brings together paintings and prints from private artists at the turn of the century. Learn more
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The museum holds a collection of Asian fine arts including over 200 Chinese snuff bottles from the 17th to the 20th century donated by Mary Alice Diener. In addition the collection consists of Japanese porcelain ware, and a variety of decorative arts from many cultures.
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The collection includes a large selection of 19th and 20th century California landscape paintings, a gift from Dr. and Mrs. John D. Relfe. The landscape painters include artists such as David Cox, Maynard Dixon, Hugo Anton Fisher, Thomas Hill and Chris Jorgenson. In addition to the paintings is a group of 36 large botanical watercolors by painter-illustrator Abigail Lyman.
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The collection includes baskets and cradleboards by Native American groups from the Central Valley of California.

The collection consists of landscape photographs of Yosemite and the Great Valley views, as well as several vintage photos of early California; the collection includes more than 50 photographs of the Manzanar internment camps at Owens Valley.
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The complex puzzle collection, donated by Charles and Sharon Small and Dr. Harlan F. Ellis, includes more than 1200 jigsaw puzzles, beginning with an early work by London cartographer and puzzle originator, Lord John Spilsbury. The collection of American and European puzzles dates from the inception of the puzzle to the present day.
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The Salzer collection consists of more than sixty trompe-l'oeil (French for "fool the eye") and still-life paintings from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. A selection of paintings was on national tour from 2003-2005.
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The Met is excited to announce that William and Dorothy Petesch, retired librarians and long-time collectors, have donated over 150 caricatures to the Museum's permanent collection. More information is here.