The museum’s collection started with objects from the Exposition and gifts from the public impressed with the Exposition’s ideals of fine design and craftsmanship. European and Japanese fantastic and ornamental art objects and books for the museum’s library were among the Museum of Art many first donations. The location exterior of Center City, Philadelphia, nevertheless, was pretty distant from many of the metropolis’s inhabitants. The GCMA also has a formidable assortment of work and prints by up to date artist Jasper Johns.
