The African Collection includes over 1,000 objects, predominately from East Africa, with particular strengths in Zaire and Nigeria. The collection is rich in the area of textiles, as well as early ceramics, many of which are part of a recent gift of over 100 choice examples from South Floridian collectors Claudia and Alan Potamkin. The Lowe continues to expand its holdings with emphasis on East Africa, particularly Ethiopia. | more

Art of the Americas
The art of North and south America and the Caribbean Basin comprises a growing collection, presently numbering some 3,000 works. These include paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries, by luminaries such as Allston, Rembrandt Peale, Sully, Bierstadt, Cropsey, Inness, Marsh, Gottlieb , Sloan, Lichtenstein, Botero, Nevelson, Warhol, Butterfield. Given its location in south Florida, the Gateway to the Americas, the Lowe boasts a growing collection of art from Cuban and Haiti. | more

Numbering over 2,400 works, the Lowe’s Ancient and Native American Collection is the only comprehensive collection of its type in the region. It includes ceramics, textiles, wood, and metal artifacts that span the habitation of the Western hemisphere from as early as the Olmec and Valdivian cultures through the Maya and Aztec. The Andean Collection is particularly well represented and includes material culture from Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. | more

The Asian Collection encompasses over 4,000 objects from East Asia: China, Korea, and Japan; South Asia: India, Tibet and Nepal; and Southeast Asia: Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and the Indonesian archipelago. It covers all media including ceramic, metal, stone, wood, textiles, and paper. | more

The European Collection encompasses more than 1,500 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from antiquity through the nineteenth century, and includes works by Gainsborough, Raeburn, Lawrence, Monet, Sisley, and Gauguin. In 1954, the Lowe Art Museum received a group of Renaissance and Baroque paintings and sculptures as part of a national distribution of art from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. | more

The Native American Collection includes the incomparable Alfred I. Barton Collection of Southwest Indian Art, which boasts some of the finest Pueblo, Navajo, and Rio Grande textiles in the South. The Barton Collection was greatly enhanced through a 1956 exchange with the Denver Art Museum, at which time the Lowe received complementary material in the areas of ceramics, beadwork, sculpture, and basketry. | more