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MyUMMA Curated Groups

my UMMA Groups by Collection Theme

You can use this page to browse UMMA’s collection by theme—including academic themes that support teaching and research—or follow broader conceptual threads like celebrity, identity, nature, movement, etc.

Browse by theme and discover unexpected relationships! And create a free myUMMA account to create your own thematic collections.

Collection Themes from A-Z

Absence – Collection Theme

Adolescence – Collection Theme

Adventure – Collection Theme

Art and Value — Collection Theme

Artists in the Degenerate Art Show — Collection Theme

Arts from Persia and Iran — Collection Theme

Art that Inspired Music Compositions — Collection Theme

Art of the Enlightenment Era — Collection Theme

Arts of Mexico — Collection Theme

Art of the Mughal Empire — Collection Theme

American Orientalist Art at the Turn of the 20th Century — Collection Theme

Animals — Collection Theme

Architecture in Photography 1900-1948 — Collection Theme

Animals, a historically and geographically comparative selection — Collection Theme

Apocalypses — Collection Theme

Architecture in Photography 1949-1989 — Collection Theme

Arizona — Collection Theme

Art of the Ramayana — Collection Theme

Art of the Works Progress Administration WPA — Collection Theme

Artists of the Bauhaus — Collection Theme

Artists of the Harlem Renaissance — Collection Theme

Ashcan School — Collection Theme

Black and African American Woman Artists — Collection Theme

Borders of Identity in North America — Collection Theme

California — Collection Theme

Caribbean Objects — Collection Theme

Cars and Car Culture — Collection Theme

Celebrity — Collection Theme

Chicago — Collection Theme

Childbearing, Birth, Midwifery, Maternity — Collection Theme

Children and Childhood — Collection Theme

Children’s Literature and Stories — Collection Theme

Christian Churches – Collection Theme

Clowns — Collection Theme

Combat, Battle, Warfare — Collection Theme

Constructivism and Associated Works — Collection Theme

Cowboys and Cowboy Art — Collection Theme

Dada and Neo-Dada — Collection Theme

Death Personified — Collection Theme

Death and Dying — Collection Theme

Death in the European Middle Ages — Collection Theme

Decadence — Collection Theme

Detroit-Area Artists — Collection Theme

Egypt in 19th Century Photography — Collection Theme

Enrique Chagoya: Flipping Europe on its Head — Collection Theme

European Primitivisms — Collection Theme

Era of the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican Muralist Movement — Collection Theme

Exiles of the Spanish Civil War — Collection Theme

Exploring Identity and Identity Politics in American Culture — Collection Theme

Expressionism — Der Blaue Reiter — Collection Theme

Expressionism — die Brücke — Collection Theme

Expressionism — Independent Artists — Collection Theme

Families — Collection Theme

Fatherhood — Collection Theme

Femmes Fatales — Collection Theme

Film Noir, Visuality and Themes — Collection Theme

Garbage Art — Collection Theme

Hebrew Bible/OldTestament — Collection Theme

History of Acting — Collection Theme

Home — Collection Theme

Horror — Collection Theme

Ink and Realisms — Collection Theme

Latin American Revolutions and Civil Wars — Collection Theme

Lives of Christian Saints — Collection Theme

Maine — Collection Theme

Manifest Destiny and the American West — Collection Theme

Medieval European Monsters and Devils — Collection Theme

Medieval Mediterranean — Collection Theme

Musculoskeletal Anatomy — Collection Theme

Native North American Art — Collection Theme

New Mexico — Collection Theme

New Objectivity — Collection Theme

Occult Mysticism in Western Art — Collection Theme

Political Protests in the US — Collection Theme

Politics, and Social, Reform in the US, 1901-1950 — Collection Theme

Postcolonial Art — Collection Theme

Prison and Punishment — Collection Theme

Race, Gender, Class, and American Identity — Collection Theme

Robots and Other Automata — Collection Theme

Rust Belt — Collection Theme

School and Education in the US — Collection Theme

Seasons — Collection Theme

Shakespeare — Collection Theme

Spanish Avant-Garde — Collection Theme

Street Art, Graffiti Art, Urban Assemblage, and Collage — Collection Theme

Surrealism — Collection Theme

TV Culture and Criticism — Collection Theme

The Circus — Collection Theme

The Crowd — Collection Theme

The Sea — Collection Theme

Underdogs, Everday Heroes, Antiheroes — Collection Theme

Visual Adaptations of Music — Collection Theme

Visual Adaptations of Poetry — Collection Theme

Visual Adaptions of Literature — Collection Theme

U.S. Civil Rights Movement — Collection Theme

Visual Forms of the Avant Garde – A Survey — Collection Theme

WPA Women Artists — Collection Theme

War, Trauma, and Memory — Collection Theme

Christian New Testament — Collection Theme

Witches and Witchcraft — Collection Theme

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