Permanent Collections
The Wichita Art Museum's permanent collection includes nearly 7,000 works of art. The major collections are listed below. Click each collection for more information.
The Roland P. Murdock Collection
One hundred sixty-eight American paintings, sculptures and graphics dating from the Colonial period through the mid-20th century.
The F. Price Cossman Memorial Trust Collection of Steuben Glass
A collection of Steuben glass, both contemporary and historic.
The L.S. and Ida L. Naftzger Collection
Over two hundred European, British, and American prints and drawings dating from the 16th century through the 20th century.
A collection of paintings, drawings and sculpture by the famous cowboy artist Charles M. Russell (1864 - 1926).
Friends of the Wichita Art Museum, Inc.
Two hundred fifty-six paintings, sculptures, and graphics, primarily American, including East River No. 1, 1926 by Georgia O'Keeffe.
The Virginia and George Ablah Collection of British Watercolors
The collection represents a revolutionary development in British watercolors that influenced American artists.
Collections of Pre-Columbian Art
Donated by Haig, Rima and Gregory Kurdian and Louise and S.O. Beren. Terra cotta and stone from the ancient cultures of Mexico and Central America.
The Edmund L. and Faye Davison Collection
Twenty-six paintings, including ten by Edmund L. Davison (1877-1944), (1877-1944), a leader in Wichita's earliest artistic community, by artists who were personal friends of the Davisons.
The John W. and Mildred L. Graves Collection
Seventy works of American art, mostly American Impressionist paintings.
The Mrs. Walter Innes Jr. Collection
of English Lusterware
Fifty examples of 19th-century English lusterware.
The Lillian George Collection of English and American Glass
Seventy examples of American glass representing major glass houses of the first three quarters of the 19th-century, donated by George E. Vollmer and Virginia Vollmer Barr
The Clarence E. Vollmer Collection
Donated by George E. Vollmer and Virginia Vollmer Barr. Fifty-one prints and paintings, predominantly by regional artists.
The Robert B. Fizzell Collection
A third edition of Los Caprichos, a set of eighty prints, aquatints and etchings by Francisco Goya, and a set of twenty-two engravings by William Blake.
The Molz Collection of American Pressed Glass
This collection of over 200 goblets and other pressed glass was formed over a 30 year period by the Wichita collector Marjorie Molz whose family kindly donated the collection in her memory.
The Elton I. "Buddy" Greenberg Collection
Buddy Greenberg filled his Wichita home with cutting-edge contemporary art that he began collecting in the 1960s.
The Clair A. Hannum Collection