Metropolitan Museum exhibits Native American masterpieces from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection

Moccasins. Unrecorded Muscogee (Creek) Artist Muscogee (Creek), ca. 1830. Hide, silk,

cotton, glass, metal. H. 3 7/8 × W. 9 × D. 4 in. (9.8 × 22.9 × 10.2 cm) Photo: Dirk Bakker.

NEW YORK, NY.- A selection of exceptional Native American works of art from New York’s Charles and Valerie Diker Collection—one of the most outstanding and comprehensive private collections of its kind—is on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With artworks ranging in date from the second to the early 20th century, Native American Masterpieces from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection explores important achievements by artists relating to culturally distinct traditions from across the North American continent. The works of art—carefully selected by the collectors and Met curators—reflect the unique and innovative visions from these traditions in a wide variety of aesthetic forms and media. Their presentation at The Met this season celebrates the conclusion of their national tour as part of the exhibition Indigenous Beauty, organized by the American Federation of the Arts, and the return of the Diker Collection to New York City.

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