Anthony Bleecker

Joseph Wood

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Anthony Bleecker (1770-1827), the son of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker, was an attorney and one of the founders of the New-York Historical Society. The ivory is cracked down the middle.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art