Art does not divide neatly into oils, watercolours and prints, and this is where the rest of it goes.
It is usually the most interesting part of the shelf. Nothing here fits a category, which means nothing here is the obvious thing anyone else has on their wall, and a piece that is hard to classify is very often the one people remember seeing. Prices tend to be lower than for paintings simply because the category is unfamiliar, not because the work is weaker.
Drawings turn up here most: pencil, charcoal, chalk and pastel, on paper. They are worth a second look, because a drawing is often the most direct thing an artist made, done quickly and without the chance to correct much, and portrait studies in particular can be startlingly alive.
Beyond drawings there are textile and embroidered pictures, decorative panels in wood, lacquer and mother of pearl, and framed pieces made to hang rather than to be filed under any particular medium.
This part of the collection changes more than the others, so it is worth a look each time you visit.
