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The Collection
The National Museum of Wildlife Art features a collection of over 5,000 catalogued items including paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and archival material. Dating from 2500 b.c. to the present, the collection chronicles much of the history of wildlife in art, focusing primarily on European and American painting and sculpture. The Museum’s collection of American art from the 19th and 20th centuries is particularly strong, including early renderings of the American West by artists of European descent and contemporary artwork dealing directly with humanity’s ever-changing relationship with nature and the environment is also featured.
The collection represents artists from a wide variety of artistic styles and time periods, including Naturalism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, and Modernism. The Museum also holds works done in a wide variety of media, such as oil, bronze, stone, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, pastel, pencil, lithography, photography, and charcoal.