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Museum Collections
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Collection Study Center

Home of the Permanent Collection, the Collection Study Center features open collection storage paired with the Patricia W. and Samuel H. Smith Collection Classroom. Our expert staff provides faculty, students, and community members with opportunities to engage with unique objects of visual culture.
Learn About the Collection

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Collection Care

Curious about your privately-owned artwork? Please use these resources to better understand collection care.
Collection Care & Services

Permanent Collection Searchable Database

The museum is responsible for a collection of over 4,000 priceless artworks housed in the Collection Study Center, unique within the WSU system. The CSC provides a portal for academic research and professional training through personalized access to the important works in WSU’s permanent collection. Your membership helps support scholarly research and an ever-expanding collection of art, visible here through our Permanent Collection Searchable Database.
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Recent Acquisition Highlights

Sculpture of a horse made out of branches.
Deborah Butterfield, Red Forest, 2013, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU Permanent Collection, Gift of Howard Wright.
Person in a hazmat suit in a mossy green forest.
Etsuko Ichikawa, Vitrified, 2018, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU Permanent Collection, Museum Purchase.
Organic forms layered in brown hues on a cream page.
Sylvia Wald, Dark Wings, 1953-1954, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU Permanent Collection, Gift of J. Scott Patnode in memory of Wally and Irene Patnode.
Rocks block a road with pyramids in the distance.
Richard Misrach, Road Blockade and Pyramids, 1989, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU Permanent Collection, Gift of Timothy Bradbury.
A dark form with red lines.
Michael Spafford, Coatlicue, 1980, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU Permanent Collection, Gift the Spafford family in memory of Duke Washington.
A framed surrealist print.
Ann Hamilton, Cordova, 1987/printed 2002, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU Permanent Collection, Gift of Timothy Bradbury.