Smithsonian Institution, Inventories of Painting and Sculpture More than 360,000 artworks in public and private collections worldwide, supplemented by a photographic collection of over 80,000 images. Inventory of American Paintings includes works by artists born or active in America by 1914; Inventory of American Sculpture carries no cut-off date and includes works from the colonial era through contemporary times. in Databaseswith databasesmuseumsmithsonian