Fine Art

The State Museum has collected over 12,000 works of art including paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture and photographs, most acquired since 1965 when the Museum's mission was expanded to include fine art. 

The collection has an American focus that highlights the work of New Jersey artists within the context of American art history.

 Also included are works that depict New Jersey scenes and events.  The strengths of the Fine Art collection lie in works by the American modernists associated with Alfred Stieglitz, American abstract artists of the 1930s and 1940s, a comprehensive collection of works by 19th and 20th-century African-American artists, contemporary American and New Jersey art, the complete graphic outputs of Ben Shahn and Jacob Landau and works by the New Jersey Fellows associated with the Brodsky Center for Print and Paper/Rutgers University.

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Paul Bernard King  (1867-1947)
Jersey Shore  (c.1912)
oil on canvas
Museum Purchase through a Gift of
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Switlik
FA2006.4.2
Photograph by Ricardo Barros

William Edmondson  (c.1870-1951)
Dove  (c.1937)
limestone
Gift of the Friends of the New Jersey State Museum
FA1992.4
Photograph by Ricardo Barros

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205 West State Street, Trenton Tuesday – Saturday, 9 am to 5 pm Sunday, noon to 5 pm
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