Modern artwork contains works by Pablo Picasso, Jean Metzinger, Antonio Rotta, Albert Gleizes, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí and Constantin Brâncuși, in addition to American modernists. The increasing collection of contemporary art contains main works by Agnes Martin, Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns, and Sol LeWitt, amongst many others. Early trendy art dominated the growth of the collections within the Fifties, with acquisitions of the Louise and Walter Arensberg and the A.E. The present Museum of Art of Philadelphian Grace Kelly’s marriage ceremony costume is maybe one of the best identified gift of the Nineteen Fifties. Starting in 1882, Clara Jessup Moore donated a remarkable assortment of vintage furniture, enamels, carved ivory, jewellery, metalwork, glass, ceramics, books, textiles and work.
