Stuart Davis, Summer Landscape #2, 1939, 8 x 12 in. The Historical Collection is a broad collection of American art including paintings, works on paper and sculpture. Founded through a major bequest in 1949, the core of the collection dates from 1900 to 1945, with works by Stuart Davis, Maynard Dixon, and Charlie Dye, as well as regional artists including Lorenzo Latimer, Robert Caples and Craig Sheppard. A 1998 gift from Wells Fargo of 49 prints and paintings expanded the collection's post-1945 work to include pieces by Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Motherwell, Sam Francis, Robert Rauschenberg, and Christo.