  {"id":132,"date":"2014-06-23T15:52:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/arthistory\/?page_id=132"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:39:14","slug":"art-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/arthistory\/gallery\/art-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"51ÁÔÆæ Art Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"lead-in\">The 51ÁÔÆæ Art Collection comprises a broad array of western and non-western art objects, ancient to contemporary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"uwm-c-link--external\">Areas of special strength include prints from the 15th to 20th century, Greek and Russian Icons, American folk art, and ethnographic collections of Africa and Oceania. Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/uwmart.pastperfectonline.com\/\">51ÁÔÆæ Art Collection online database.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-african-art-collection\">The African Art Collection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The African Art Collection\u00a0provides an encyclopedic overview of 19th\u00a0and early 20th\u00a0century African art, with objects from nearly one hundred different cultural areas and twenty-three different countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-emile-h-mathis-ii-print-collection\">The Emile H. Mathis II Print Collection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Emile H. Mathis II Print Collection\u00a0is an expansive assemblage of 1,500 works on paper spanning 500 years of art history. The collection, which represents Mathis\u2019 lifetime passion for fine art, includes excellent examples of 17th\u00a0century etchings by Jacques Callot and Rembrandt van Rijn; 19th\u00a0century French, British, and American printmakers including Francis Seymour Haden, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; early 20th\u00a0century prints by Kathe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, and Joan Mir\u00f3; and extensive holdings of late 20th\u00a0century American artists: Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Robert Rauschenberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-rogers-family-collection-of-greek-and-russian-icons\">The Rogers Family Collection of Greek and Russian Icons<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rogers Family Collection of Greek and Russian Icons\u00a0represents a remarkable array of icons, many dating to the 15th\u00a0and 16th\u00a0centuries. The collection also consists of numerous liturgical objects, finely executed in gold, bronze, wood, and enamel, including reliquary and processional crosses, chalices, spoons, as well as secular pieces such as Byzantine coins and jewelry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-blanche-and-henry-rosenberg-collection-of-modern-art\">The Blanche and Henry Rosenberg Collection of Modern Art<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Blanche and Henry Rosenberg Collection of Modern Art\u00a0is an impressive grouping of two- and three-dimensional works representing the major stylistic trends of the first half of the twentieth century. 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