Welcome to the Visual Patterns in Contemporary Art Collection.
This collection features a total of 5 works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5 works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and 10 works from the Museum of Modern Art. Works in the collection span from the 1920s to the present day and consist primarily of paintings, prints, mixed-media works, and decorative arts.
This collection aims to contextualize visually interesting patterns in artwork within their time periods and geographical locations.
Scroll through the timeline below to get a better sense of which visual patterns were created during which times in history.