Collection

Description

The MCA’s permanent collection includes more than 2,500 artworks that span media and movements from the 1920s to the present. Although not on permanent display, works from the collection appear regularly in our many rotating exhibitions. The entire collection, with images and descriptions, is presented here for the first time. Explore it by artist, title, or creation date.

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Title index

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A primarily beige-looking canvas is actually composed of many small dots of light blues, pinks, oranges, and purples.

"I started using the things that I was told not to use. Glitter. Pink. This was my way of resisting."
—Howardena Pindell

Short A primarily beige-looking canvas is actually composed of many small dots of light blues, pinks, oranges, and purples.

Works on View

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Peter Alexander, May 3, 1970, 1970
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Peter Alexander, Untitled (Drip), 1970, 1970
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Peter Alexander, Brown Black Wedge, 1969
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Billy Al Bengston, The Alamo, 1969
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Chris Burden, Strangler Hunt Grows, 1979
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Alexander Calder, Snowflakes and Red Stop, 1964
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Sarah Charlesworth, Bowl and Column, 1986
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DIS, Apology, 2016
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Stan Douglas, Hockey Fight, 1951, 2010
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Jeanne Dunning, The Pink, 1996
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Robert Heinecken, V.N. Pin Up (#1 of 2), 1968
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Jene Highstein, Floating World, 1986
1. Short Photograph of a person-sized rounded outdoor sculpture made of grey, textured stone
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Robert Irwin, Untitled, 1965–67
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Craig Kauffman, Le Mur s’en va, 1969
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Craig Kauffman, Untitled, 1968
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Craig Kauffman, Untitled, 1966
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Jeff Koons, Rabbit, 1986
1. Short A stainless-steel sculpture of a rabbit holding a carrot has been polished to a high sheen so that a large gallery is reflected across its surface. The rabbit's shape and proportions are reminiscent of those of an inflatable toy.
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Jeff Koons, Lifeboat, 1985
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Jeff Koons, Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank, 1985
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Sharon Lockhart, Goshogaoka Girls Basketball Team Group #1: Yuka Koishihara and Eri Kobayashi; Yuka Ishigami; Chinatsu Narui and Hitomi Shibazaki; Kumiko Shirai, 1997
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Howardena Pindell, Rambo Real Estate: Homelessness, 1987
1. Short A collage of real estate listings from old newspapers forms the crude shape of a simple house. The news clippings, which are black ink on manilla paper, are combined in a way that the lines of text form complex stochastic patterns. In the center of the collage is the word: HOMELESSNESS in white letters.
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Howardena Pindell, Free, White and 21, 1980
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Howardena Pindell, Untitled #20 (Dutch Wives Circled and Squared), 1978
1. Short A primarily beige-looking canvas is actually composed of many small dots of light blues, pinks, oranges, and purples.
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Howardena Pindell, Video Drawings: Abstract, 1976
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Howardena Pindell, Video Drawings: Hockey, 1975
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Howardena Pindell, Video Drawings: Swimming, 1975
1. Short A grainy image of an outstretched person is seen in profile against a blue background and covered with numbered black arrows and dots in a seemingly random arrangement.
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Pope.L, Crying Painting, 2016
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George Rickey, Two Lines Oblique, 1968
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Edward Ruscha, Brews, 1970
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Edward Ruscha, Dues, 1970
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Edward Ruscha, Mews, 1970
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Edward Ruscha, News, 1970
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Edward Ruscha, Pews, 1970
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Edward Ruscha, Stews, 1970
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Thomas Schütte, Ganz Grosse Geister (Big Spirits XL), 2004
1. Short Three yellow sculptures of abstract human figures stand as if communicating with each other outdoors in an urban setting.
2. Long Three yellow and white forms are installed on an outdoor terrace. The forms resemble human bodies, yet they have no faces. The heads of the forms are created from coiled, hard textured material and the bodies are similarly constructed of coiled material, arranged into torsos, arms and legs. The scale of the figures is about double the size of an average person and the are arranged about a half of a figure length apart from each other. The figure on the left appears to have its head tilted to the sky, while the center figure faces to the right, where the third figure bends lightly towards the ground, hand upraised. The bright color of the figures contrasts with urban scene in the background: behind the figures a black fence, green leafy trees and tall gray buildings are visible. The sky is bright blue and the bright light of mid-day casts sharp shadows below the figures.
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Erin Shirreff, Sculpture for Snow, 2011
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Takis, Magnetic Mobile, c. 1964

Gloved hands review a 4x5 color transparency and a roll of 35mm black and white film over a light box with a viewing loupe.

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Short Gloved hands review a 4 × 5 color transparency and a roll of 35mm black and white film over a light box with a viewing loupe.

Works that are titled Untitled

Short A blue-and-white graph shaped like a ring with one-sixth solid and the rest checkered is titled "As on Nov 2015."