The University of Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum art collection includes more than 12,000 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures by 400 artists from colonial times to the present. A strong focus on Western American art includes works by Bierstadt, George Catlin, Remington (including 18 of his 22 bronzes), Russell, and Joseph Henry Sharp.
Some of the important, non-western artists featured in the Collection include Eakins, C. W. Peale, Whistler, Sargent, Homer, Audubon, William Merritt Chase, and N. C. Wyeth.
Artifacts from the Mississippi Valley region, ancient Mexico, and beyond are also well represented.