Periods

Our curators use the term period to refer to a chronological timeframe, historical period, or artistic movement. While dates may be fuzzy or unknown, and the boundaries of some artistic movements are open to interpretation, these descriptions help to create connections among works. Different curatorial departments use descriptive terms in different ways. Over time, this creates tremendous diversity in the vocabulary that appears in collection records. Inconsistencies, incomplete information, and obsolete terminology are par for the course, and we are working to reduce the instances in which they occur.

Hudson River School There are 1,088 objects made around this time which is about 0.72% of our online collection
Neoclassical There are 906 objects made around this time which is about 0.60% of our online collection
American Modern There are 536 objects made around this time which is about 0.36% of our online collection
Wiener Werkstätte There are 437 objects made around this time which is about 0.29% of our online collection
early Modern There are 328 objects made around this time which is about 0.22% of our online collection
Art Deco There are 300 objects made around this time which is about 0.20% of our online collection
Rococo There are 220 objects made around this time which is about 0.15% of our online collection
postwar There are 159 objects made around this time which is about 0.11% of our online collection
Civil War There are 119 objects made around this time which is about 0.08% of our online collection
Northern Renaissance There are 96 objects made around this time which is about 0.06% of our online collection
Baroque There are 94 objects made around this time which is about 0.06% of our online collection
Modern There are 89 objects made around this time which is about 0.06% of our online collection
Psychedelic There are 42 objects made around this time which is about 0.03% of our online collection
post-Civil War There are 42 objects made around this time which is about 0.03% of our online collection
World War II There are 40 objects made around this time which is about 0.03% of our online collection
Postmodern There are 38 objects made around this time which is about 0.03% of our online collection
Victorian There are 33 objects made around this time which is about 0.02% of our online collection
Northern Baroque There are 29 objects made around this time which is about 0.02% of our online collection
Jugendstil/Art Deco There are 28 objects made around this time which is about 0.02% of our online collection
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There are 101 periods represented in our online collection (covering about 3.32% of all our objects) and this is page 1 of 3