God is not left without witnesses, however, and the urge to create religious statements and the evidence that the power of the gospel still gripped persons outside of systems led to the fact that a great body of religious art was produced in the nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries outside of official religious circles.
Growing up in a small Quebec town in the
early twentieth century meant being cut off from the
outside world each winter, and so Joseph - Armand Bombardier invented the snowmobile out of necessity rather than as a recreational vehicle.
The collection has particular strengths in Ming and Qing dynasty Chinese painting, Mughal dynasty Indian miniature painting, Baroque painting, old master prints and drawings,
early American painting, nineteenth - and
early -
twentieth -
century photography, Conceptual art, international contemporary art, West Coast avant - garde film, international animation, Soviet cinema,
early video art, and the largest collection of Japanese films
outside of Japan.