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 for artworks under copyright or other restrictions, or to request an image not available on our website, please contact the museum at moa@cheekwood.org.
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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 by the 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 and the first Black artist to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Edmondson remains one of the most important self-taught artists of the twentieth-century.
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On View
