Curated Collection
The 101
The 101 Most Iconic Works in Our Collection.
The pictures most people recognise before they read the label. Each one carries a short account on its own page of how it came to be made and what it changed, written from the record of the museum that holds it.
- 101works
- 64artists
- 1480s–1930sdate range
Vincent van GoghThe Starry Night
What is in the collection
Paintings
From Botticelli's Venus and Vermeer's girl at the window to Van Gogh's starry sky, Klimt's gold, Hopper's late-night diner and Georgia O'Keeffe's cannas.
Prints & posters
Hokusai's great wave and Hiroshige's sudden shower, Hasui's snow at Zojo-ji, Sharaku's actor, and the Paris street posters of Toulouse-Lautrec, Mucha and Privat-Livemont.
Plates & patterns
Cellarius's chart of the Copernican heavens, Haeckel's hummingbirds, Bilibin's Russian fairy tales, Doré's wolf, and William Morris's Trellis, the first wallpaper he designed.