These 15 Homes Have Museum-Quality Art Displays

For a client with an art collection that is both expansive and impressive, designer David Scott designed his home in Chelsea's Walker Tower around the art, first deciding where the major pieces, like this Cindy Sherman work that surveys the living room, would hang.

Ellsworth Kelly’s Dark Green Panel is the focal point in the dramatic study of this Atherton home by designer Martha Angus. Its emerald hue is echoed by a pair of barrel-back chairs from the 1960s that cozy up to a glass desktop supported on two sawhorses.

A large-scale work by Connecticut artist Linda Colletta adds a vivid pop of color to the subdued palette of this modern dining room D2 Interieurs created for an empty-nester couple's modern Westport home.

Designer Jessie Schuster relied on neutral textures in the master bedroom of an art collector’s Chelsea apartment to complement a series of Ed Ruscha’s Hope prints that hold court above the bed.

At her home in Water Mill, designer Phyllis Briley dedicated a living room wall to displaying black-and-white photographs, a touch that adds visual interest without too many colors competing for attention.

Artwork injects color into architect Shay Zak’s streamlined St. Helena retreat, like Tilo Kaiser’s When Mum Was Away On Business, which hangs over the living room's modern fireplace.

At the top of the main stairway landing in an art-collection couple’s Connecticut home, designer Barbara Hauben Ross created a gallery wall by hanging an assemblage of thank-you cards sent to her clients by notable artists for their work on their behalf.

Designer Collin Burry painted the walls of his Healdsburg getaway white to provide a gallery-like backdrop for his impressive art collection that includes pieces like this Andrew Schoultz work, that provides an energetic explosion of color in the living room.

In photographer Brian Leighton’s Midtown East apartment, a television on the credenza displays a rotating slideshow of his latest photographic series and becomes part of the gallery of artworks that hang around it.

Bäst’s Check Please greets visitors in the entry hall of this Brooklyn Heights brownstone reimagined by O’Neill Rose Architects and decorated by Homepolish’s Will Saks.

A wall of framed artwork anchored around an enlarged photograph taken by the homeowners draws attention to the soaring pitched ceilings in the great room of Eduardo Rodriguez and Herman Vega’s Catskills getaway.

Tailored and elegant, the master bedroom of a Connecticut home designed by Marcia Tucker is a suitable stage for a Vik Muniz portrait.

In the study of designer Gary Hutton’s San Francisco home, a salon-style arrangement of Arts & Crafts period landscapes combine with works he inherited or received as gifts on the wall behind his desk.

This Shelter Island contemporary home features vast walls of glass and crisp, clean lines that provide a welcoming backdrop for the owners’ energetic, eclectic art collection that includes pieces like this Warhol-esque portrait of Kate Moss by Mr. Brainwash.

As an art advisor, Holly Baxter is an active supporter of emerging and mid-career artists and treats her Pacific Heights home like a modern-day salon. Even in her “girl cave,” a cozy movie-watching room, an arrangement of works by Doug Keyes, Kimberly Austin, J. John Priola, Andrea Modica, Robert Stivers and Luo are surrounded by sculptures and other meaningful objects.