The permanent collection galleries integrate decorative arts objects with paintings and sculptures, emphasizing the artistic, social, and political context for the works on display. (en.wikipedia.org)
The majority of decorative arts objects in the collection are American or English of the period 1680 - 1910. (brooksmuseum.org)
The Gallery also has an important group of nineteenth - century American naïve drawings and watercolors, as well as The Index of American Design, a visual archive produced between 1935 and 1942 that consists of approximately 18,000 watercolor renderings of American decorative arts objects from the colonial period through the nineteenth century. (nga.gov)