Today, the museum has collected more than 185 000 exhibits that illustrate the long history of art from ancient times to the present day. A large collection of art of the ancient world includes paintings , sculpture, ceramics, glass and bronze , mosaic , household items from the Middle East, Egypt , Greece, Etruria and Rome. A comprehensive collection of American acquaints visitors with the painting and sculpture of the greatest artists of the United States over the past 200 years : it works by John Singleton Copley, Frederic Church , Thomas Eakins , Frederic Remington , Winslow Homer , George Bellows , John Singer Sargent , Edward Hopper , Alexander Calder and other .
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