You might be interested to explore the Museum of Fine Arts having numerous collection in various  spheres.

 

African Art

You will find in this section having the masks, figures, hats, and knives in the museum´s
collection used 2,500 years, from Nigeria´s early Nok culture, till the mid-1900s.

You will find the Glassell Collection of African Gold having nearly 800 pieces, the Glassell
Collection of African Gold contains nice works from the royal courts of the Akan peoples of  Ghana.

You might be interested to know that this Glassell Collection is considered to be the finest of  its sort being available anywhere in the world as its uniqueness rests on it being the sole  substantial collection of African gold in an American museum.

American Sculpture and Painting

You will find here in the museum the American art at the MFAH belonging to the 19th-century

landscape painting, along with its examples by Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and others for that  matter.

You can also see and explore here the masterworks by Frederic Remington as well.
You will come to know that the works in the MFAH collection focuses on the Remington´s
achievements as the creator of an enduring archetype- the American cowboy.

Antiquities

The ancient Egyptian works  will also enthuse you  like the spectacular polychrome coffin of  Pedi-Osiris and the exquisite rare blue faience sculpture of the god Thoth as a baboon as well.

Asian Art

Now there are also the collection from the Asian Art having the range from a Chinese vessel made  about 2400 B.C. to contemporary Japanese ceramics made in the 1990s.
You might be interested to explore the gallery along with its focus on the unique distinct

Chinese aesthetic, ranging from the one created in the ancient Zhou and Shang dynasties to  modern featuring video.

You will find it interesting to explore the museum’s Arts of Japan Gallery opened in February  2012, reflecting the appeal of the Japanese aesthetic of beauty and elegance for that matter.

What you will see in this section is the   Custom-designed Toshiba LED lighting illuminating the  artworks displayed in vitrine cases designed by Glasbau Hahn (of Germany). You will also find  here in the gallery showcasing the museum’s permanent Japanese art collection along with its  display loans and temporary exhibits from other collections as well.

The Glassell Collection of Indonesian Gold

One of the largest gatherings of Indonesian gold displayed in an American museum, the collection contains rare and outstanding objects from the most important island cultures of Indonesia,  where gold jewelry and ritual objects are crucial to the structure and meaning of life.

Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art

This collection will enthuse you for its  finest examples of geometric abstraction in paintings,  constructions, drawings, posters, and graphic materials by Brazil’s artists of the post-World  War II era.

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Decorative Arts

The museum´s collection of modern and contemporary decorative arts highlights the prime  decorative arts movements along with its specimen of the exceptional design, craftsmanship, and originality.

You will find it interesting to know that the  Blaffer Foundation Collection
Five galleries in the Beck Building are being  dedicated to presenting the outstanding  collection of European art including the   works by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Sandro Botticelli,

Pietro Longhi, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, and Jean-Baptiste Oudry.

Impressionism/Post-Impressionism

This section will impress you with its  collection of key works by Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne,  Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Édouard Vuillard. You will find here the fine examples of early
Modern painting like the canvases by artists such as Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger.

Latin American Art
This section will present before you the museum´s collection comprising of nearly  760 modern  and contemporary Latin American works along with its 2,500 Pre-Columbian objects as well.
You might be interested to know that this center is the sole one of the sort having the fame of  being the only one of its kind in the world, having both a curatorial department and a resource  center within the museum.

Modern and Contemporary Art

You will also find here the early Modern art, like Cubist works by Pablo Picasso and Fernand  Léger, as well as works by Henri Matisse, Constantin Brancusi, and Piet Mondrian, are on view in  the Beck Building.

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