Campus Art

Explore the Neighborhoods

Main Campus Neighborhood Alexander Phimister Proctor, American, 1860–1950 Gorham Manufacturing Co., American, established in 1831 Pair of tigers, 1910

Alexander Phimister Proctor, American, 1860–1950 Gorham Manufacturing Co., American, established in 1831 Pair of tigers, 1910

Main Campus Neighborhood

Social Sciences and Engineering Neighborhood

Social Sciences and Engineering Neighborhood

Natural Sciences Neighborhood Alexander Calder, American, 1898–1976: Five Disks: One Empty, 1969–70. Painted mild steel. The John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Colle

Alexander Calder, American, 1898–1976: Five Disks: One Empty, 1969–70. Painted mild steel. The John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Colle

Natural Sciences Neighborhood

Residential Colleges Neighborhood executed by Carl Nesjar, Norwegian, born 1920 designed by Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881–1973 Head of a Woman Designed 1962, execu

executed by Carl Nesjar, Norwegian, born 1920 designed by Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881–1973 Head of a Woman Designed 1962, execu

Residential Colleges Neighborhood

Graduate College Neighborhood Gaston Lachaise, American, 1882–1935: Floating Figure, 1927. Cast bronze, The John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Collection, Princeton

Gaston Lachaise, American, 1882–1935: Floating Figure, 1927. Cast bronze, The John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Collection, Princeton

Graduate College Neighborhood

Director's Welcome

James Christen Steward, Nancy A. Nasher-David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director

Princeton is home to one of the country’s most significant collections of twentieth- and twenty-first-century sculpture. Read more...

History of the Collection

Pair of oxidized bronze tigers that flank the steps to Nassau Hall.

During the University’s first two hundred years, monuments and statues embellished campus buildings and exterior courtyards. It was not until 1968 that sculpture as a fine art was embraced and integrated into the campus plan with the gift of the John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Collection. Read more...