The Collection
The Columbia Museum of Art’s collection includes masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance through the 18th century from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, a strong collection of European and American furniture and decorative arts, as well as modern and contemporary art, art glass, and 20th-century design. Of particular interest are Sandro Botticelli's
Nativity, Canaletto’s
View of the Molo, Claude Monet's
The Seine at Giverny, and art glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany. In recent years, the Museum’s collection of Asian art and Antiquities has grown through generous gifts to the collection, including an impressive collection of Korean and Chinese ceramics and Roman portrait heads.