The Arts of the Americas collection includes four specialty areas: Pre-Columbian, African, Oceanic, and the Colonial and Independence periods of Latin America.

The pre-Columbian collection is considered one of the best in the United States by national experts and includes examples of Olmec, Preclassic, ritual ballgame figurines, Teotihuacan, Maya, West Mexican, Veracruz, Zapotec, Toltec, Mixtec and Aztec cultures. Click here to see highlights of the Aztlan Collection.

The African collection is currently expanding by gathering high quality examples of the Yorba sculpture tradition.

The Latin American collection highlights the artistic blending of the indigenous cultures found in Central and South America with that of Spain.

	Olmec culture Standing portrait figure of a ruler Veracruz, Mexico Middle Preclassic period, 1000-600 B.C. serpentine The Mr. and Mrs. J. Moore McDonough Endowment 1992.018
	Olmec culture Female ritual ballplayer figurine Las Bocas, Puebla, Mexico Early Preclassic period, 1500-1000 B.C. slipped earthenware, red pigment Purchase funds provided by Dorothy Griffin 2001.037
	Classic Veracruz Culture Palma depicting the God of Death as a ballplayer holding a knife and a severed head Veracruz, Mexico Late Classic period A.D. 700-900 Basalt Gift of Mr. And Mrs. James W. Alsdorf 1996.44