Special collections including paper, Japanese prints, rare illustrated Bibles, Indian miniatures, African carvings and implements, Pre-Columbian pottery and Ancient Greek ceramics.
The museum is home to the Walking Madonna, one of four sculptures by the British artist Dame Elisabeth Frink.
La Salle University Art Museum contains works from the historic Peale family of Philadelphia.
Peale was a follower of the Swiss educator Johann Pestalozzi, who theorized that writing and drawing skills required similar intellectual and physical transactions.
[3] Among the art the museum planned to sell were the Walking Madonna, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Virgil Reading the Aeneid Before Augustus from 1865; Dorothea Tanning’s Temptation of St. Anthony; Georges Rouault’s Le Dernier Romantique (The Last Romantic); and Albert Gleizes’s Man in the City (L’Homme Dans la Ville).