Highlights include:

• over 2,500 oil paintings, including hundreds of portraits of Columbia administrators and faculty since the eighteenth century, and the largest repository of art work by American artists Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) and Ary Stillman (1891-1967);
• public outdoor sculpture with works by Daniel Chester French, Henry Moore, Clement Meadmore, Auguste Rodin, and others;
• over 2,000 works of photography from daguerreotypes to digital prints, including significant holdings of nineteenth-century American photography, and works by photographers such as Tina Barney, Mike Disfarmer, Donna Ferrato, Larry Fink, Ralph Gibson, Leon Levinstein, Helen Levitt, Aubrey Mayer, Arthur Rothstein, Andy Warhol, and Garry Winogrand;
• thousands of works on paper (drawings, watercolors, prints);
• nearly 500 works of art and cultural heritage objects made by American Indian and Native Alaskan tribal communities;
  
• archaeological collections including pottery, bronzes, and other items from ancient Rome, Etruria, and the Aegean, excavated and brought to the University by alumni-professors George N. Olcott (1869-1912) and Clarence H. Young (1866-1957);
  
• the Arthur M. Sackler Collection donated between the years 1964 and 1972 of over 2,500 ancient Near Eastern and East Asian art works and cultural heritage objects, including Buddhist sculptures in stone, bronze, and polychrome wood, and decorative arts and archaeological artifacts from India, China, Japan, and Korea; and
  
• hundreds of sculptures and decorative arts (ceramics, tapestries, furniture) from around the globe.