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The Montana Museum of Art and Culture is a museum of the University of Montana – Missoula in Missoula, Montana. Its permanent collection began in 1894 and now includes some 10,000 original artifacts and works of art.

Permanent collection

The museum has a variety of different works in its permanent collection:

• Photographic Collection. The museum holds a collection of photographs, including historic and documentary photos and works of fine-art photography. The museum has a collection of 19th century photos relating to Missoula and the University of Montana from the Dr. Caroline McGill Collection. Among the works in the McGill Collection are photos showing agriculture on the Bitterroot Valley; panoramas of the area, and "Their Eyes Tell Everything," an archive of photographs of the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation of the Montana Chippewa Cree from 1906 to 1945. The museum's photographic collection also includes a portfolio of early 20th century Crow photographs by Fred Miller and a number of Hollywood film stills. Twentieth and 21-century photographs by Berenice Abbott, Eugène Atget, William Eggleston, Philippe Halsman, George Hurrell, Jay Jaffee, and Louis Stettner, are included in the collection, as are Montana photographers include Richard Buswell, Dudley Dana, and Dennis Kern.

• Books and Book Illustrations. The museum's collection of books and book illustrations includes a variety of sketchbooks and other artist-made books, illustrations, limited editions, portfolios, and broadsides. Artists represented in the sketchbook collection include Alfred Henry Maurer, Henry Meloy, and Josephine Hale. The collection also includes a book series by Dieter Roth; Wolf Tracks on the Welcome Mat, a collaboration between Paul Zarzyski and Theodore Waddell; and selections from Hormone Derange Editions by Peter Koch. The collection also includes book illustration drawings by Henry Meloy and Lois Lenski.

• Textiles. The museum's textile collections is comprised of a Vintage Clothing Collection, a European Tapestries Collection, and the Helen Cappadocia Collection of Southeast Asian Textiles. The vintage clothing collection includes some 2,100 pieces from the mid-19th century onward, including hats from the Montana-based department store Hennessy's, which existed from 1820 to 1972 as well as various women's, men's, and children's clothing, as well as military hats. The museum's European tapestries collection include three donated by Josephine Bay: The Brussels Le Joueur de Cornemuse (The Bagpipe Player), dating to the first half of the 18th century; the Flemish Gothic Judith with the Head of Holofernes, dating to around 1525; and the Flemish Renaissance Wars of the Romono (undated). The tapestry collection also includes the Rya Tapestry by Rudy Autio. The Helen Cappadocia Collection of Southeast Asian Textiles includes more than 600 pieces, including many created by Thai, Lao, and Hmong peoples. The collection includes a cotton and bamboo Buddhist temple banner, a money vest, prayer shawls, an elephant head cloth, and other items.

• Rudy Autio Ceramics Collection. The museum's collection of ceramic art and sculpture is named for Rudy Autio, who directed the University of Montana's Art Department for 28 years. The collection numbers some 150 pieces and includes pieces of Autio, works by artists by the Helena-based Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, a large number of works donated by Ken Little, and the Sherman Preece Collection, donated by Gilbert Millikan. The Ceramics Collection also includes several purchases of art by University of Montana students and faculty and several Chinese and Japanese functional ceramics. Represented artists in the collection include Peter Voulkos, David Pledge, Henry Meloy, Peter Meloy, Jay Rummel, Frances Senska, and David Shaner.

• Henry Meloy Collection and Archive. The museum holds about 4,000 works by Henry Meloy, including oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, sketches and sculpture, on permanent loan from the Henry Meloy Educational Trust.

• Public Art. Various works of public art on display at the University of Montana campus are part of the museum's collection, include sculptures and monumentss, site-specific works, and freestanding and wall-mounted works. Works include pieces by Rudy Autio, Steven Connell, Stephanie Frostad, Robert Gehrke, Jay Polite Laber, Tom Rippon, Lloyd Schermer, David Secrest, George Wallace, and Patrick Zentz.

• Asian Art. The museum's Asian art collection focuses on Chinese and Japanese items and includes a late Ming lotus blossom painting; a pair of Sumiyoshi School scrolls dating to the mid-19th century; two painted screens; an 18th-century silk painting of a Manchu court lady; a Tang ceramic horse, and Qing grave figures; an 18th-century Chinese scroll that previously belonged to Pearl S. Buck; a set of 19th-century figurative paintings from China; various Chinese and Japanese ceramics from the 17th through 19th centuries; and a suit of medieval Japanese armour.

• Edgar Samuel Paxson Collection. The museum holds a number of works and pieces of memorabilia belonging to Edgar Samuel Paxon, whose widow donated the collection to the museum in 1927. The collection includes a number of Paxton's oil paintings (including Sacajawea, Great Falls of the Missouri, and Clark Fork of the Columbia) as well as several watercolors and sketches. The collection also includes personal effects, including Paxson's studio sign, paint set, and military medals from his Spanish-American War service.

• European Artwork. The museum holds European works dating from 1490 to 1940. Works include the Josephine Bay donation of tapestries and the Stella Duncan Collection of Renaissance Paintings, which includes a Flemish portrait of a Spanish gentleman dating to 1574, as well as two Russian icons, one of Mary from the 15th century and a second from the 17th century. The museum lists the Master of Saint Gregory, Eugène Boudin, Thomas Couture, Philibert Léon Couturier, Blaise Alexandre DesGoffe, Virgilio Narcisso Díaz de la Peña, Gerrit Dou, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Lev Kaminev, Cesar Pattein, Ilya Repin, Julius Seyler, Abraham Van Stry, and Eugène Verboeckhoven among the European artists represented in its collection.

Also included in this collection are a number of prints and works on paper, including a large print collection by Honoré Daumier and Jean Louis Forain donated by painter Fra Dana, prints by Eugene Delacroix, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Max Pechstein, Käthe Kollwitz and Patrick Caulfield, as well as prints from the 16th and 17th century.