Collections
Welcome to our collection online, where you will find information about many of the objects in our rich holdings. We hope these pages will inspire you to explore further – both here and in our galleries.
Cheekwood creates, organizes, and disseminates a broad range of digital images and data that document the rich history of the museum. Images of artworks in the Museum’s collection fall into two categories:
- Images of works the museum believes to be in the public domain, or those to which the museum waives any copyright it might have. Public- domain works from the The Cheekwood Collections can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction.
- Images of works the museum knows to be under copyright or other restrictions.
To request images of artwork, please fill out this form.
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Ceramics
Strengths of this collection lie in 18th and 19th century Royal Worcester Porcelain and American Art Pottery from the Centennial to the Second World War (1875-1940).
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Drawings
Cheekwood’s collections of drawings, watercolors, and pastels date from the 19th century to the present.
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Glass
The glass collection contains work from the 19th through the mid-20th century, with an emphasis on art glass from the 1880-1930.
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Furniture
The collection is reflective of the collecting taste of the Cheek family, as well as works from the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
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Paintings
Cheekwood’s collection of paintings began with the transfer of art from the Nashville Museum of Art. Today, the collection boasts strong examples of the late-19th century to early-20th century American art.
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Photographs
Established with a gift of photographs by Louise Dahl-Wolfe from the artist in the 1960s, the photography collection comprises works by major American photographers from 1900-1975.
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Prints
The collection comprises fine examples of American and British 20th century prints.
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Sculpture
The collection focuses on examples of sculpture from the late-19th through the 21st centuries.
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Silver
Cheekwood’s silver collection contains British and American work from the 18th century to the early-20th century.
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William Edmondson
A Nashville native, Edmondson remains one of the most important self-taught artists of the twentieth-century.
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On View
