COLLECTIONS

Opened in 1967, the Picker Art Gallery has grown from a temporary display space for art produced by Colgate faculty and students, and for short-term loan exhibitions of contemporary art to a gallery of significant potential.

The Picker Art Gallery holds a permanent collection of approximately 10,000 objects, ranging across many historical periods, cultures, mediums, and national schools. Areas of strength include:

Twentieth-century American prints, drawings, and paintings;

Dr. Luther W. Brady Collection
of American Expressionist Works on Paper;

Herbert A. Mayer Collection of Australian Aboriginal Drawings
from the Carrolup Native River Settlement;

Yevgeny Khaldei Collection of Soviet Era Photographs;

Theodore and Evelyn Herman Collection
of Chinese Woodcut Prints;

Thomas Nast III Collection of Political Cartoons by Thomas Nast.

Each year, the Picker Art Gallery holds approximately twelve temporary exhibitions, many drawn from the permanent collection and from alumni loans. Some projects are partially or wholly curated by Colgate students in the gallery's intensive internship program, and by members of the faculty in conjunction with their research and/or teaching. A wide array of talks, concerts and other public programs, as well as special activities for families and children and for area schools, attract several thousand visitors each year.