Museum
Europe
The European collection contains about 1,000 items, and has a broad scope, ranging from the fifteenth century through the present. The collection primarily consists of prints, drawings, and paintings.
Spain
The Spanish material consists of an important fifteenth century panel painting, Pablo Picasso prints, and some prints by Joan Miro and Salvador Dali.
Netherlands
The Netherlands collection is small but select with a focus on the seventeenth century. Artists include Jan van Vliet, Rembrandt, Cornelius Poelenburgh, Philips Wouwerman, Hendrick Nauwinx, Abraham Bloemaert, Nicolaas Bauer (eighteenth century), Meindert Hobbema, and Bernardus Blommers (nineteenth century). Techniques used in these works of art include etching, chalk drawing, ink and wash work, crayon, and oil painting.
Flanders
The Flemish collection is also small, but of high quality. The bulk of the paintings and engravings was produced by Sir Anthony van Dyck in the seventeenth century, though a few drawings in chalk by Frans Snyders and etchings by Anthonie Waterloo are also part of the collection.
Germany
The German collection contains woodcuts from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Artists include Hans Sebold Beham, Casper Fraisinger, Heinrich Aldegrever, and Albrecht Durer.
Italy
The one hundred and sixty works of art in the Italian collection consist primarily of sixteenth to nineteenth century drawings and prints. Works from the sixteenth century were produced by Andrea Andreani, Cristoforo Roncalli, Francesco Vanni, and Francesco Salviti. Seventeenth century artists include Andrea Sacchi, Remigio Cantagallina, Carlo Maratti, and Baccia del Bianco. Eighteenth century pieces form the highlight of the Italian works at Denison with pieces by Francesco Zuccarelli, Carlo Bononi, Benigno Bossi, and Giovanni Piranesi. The Piranesi collection is particularly large, comprising seventy-one prints. Other media include painting, photographs, and sculpture. Painting is dominated by works by Andrea del Sarto, Bernardo Strozzi, and Domenico Beccafumi; sculpture by Nino Franchina, and photography by Felice Beato.
England
The English collection consists of more than two hundred and fifty prints and drawings and fifty-six silver objects, paintings, and ceramics. Eighteenth to twentieth century prints form the majority of the collection. These include pieces by Jacob Epstein, Edmond Blampied, George Romney, J.T.W. Turner, Charles Lovat Fraser, William Hogarth, and William Blake. The collection also includes an oil painting by Sir Peter Lely.
France
Of the more than three hundred objects in the French collection, most are prints and drawings from well-known nineteenth and twentieth century artists, such as Rosa Bonheur, Honoré Daumier, Georges Braque, Odilon Redon, Marcel Duchamp, Edgar Degas, Henri Fantin-Latour, H. Toulouse-Lautrec, Maurice Vlaminck, Henri Matisse, Auguste Brouet, and Maxime Lalanne. The majority of the collection is made up of one hundred and thirty-five prints by Jean Louis Forain, one of the largest such collections in the United States. Denison also holds seventeen prints by the sixteenth century artist, Leonard Gaultier, and several works by the seventeenth century artist, Francois Verdier. Oil paintings in the collection are by Jules Arsene Garnier, Nicholas Lancret, Jules Breton (Brittany Girl), and Jules Lefebvre (Girl by the Sea).