A Mayan stucco head and Inca storage bottle as well as a marble sculpture representing Kuan Yin from China are also among the holdings.

[3] The collection also includes minor works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Mary Cassatt, Milton Avery, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Marcus Jansen, Tom Wesselmann, Jim Dine, Jean Dubuffet, Gustav Klimt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Philip Pearlstein, Victor Vasarely, Alberto Giacometti, and Pierre Renoir.

From the start, HMA's collection has been made up of gifts from artists, private collectors, commercial galleries and groups such as the student government.

"Occasional and usually rushed visits to a gallery or museum, or the use of slides or other reproductions, never really equal daily unhurried contacts with works of art, in which students can see true color, sixe and texture in a familiar college setting," Chernow wrote in 1980.

Since 2000, the museum has hosted traveling exhibits on Rembrandt prints, Ansel Adams photographs and Frank Warren's "PostSecret" postcards.