The Berger Collection is an important private collection of British art. Begun in 1996 by the late William M. B. Berger and his wife Bernadette Johnson Berger, it is now owned by the Berger Collection Educational Trust. Augmented by important new acquisitions, the collection comprises approximately two hundred objects and spans more than six centuries––from a rare medieval altarpiece dated about 1395 to a 1996–97 painting by Sir Howard Hodgkin.
The paintings, drawings, and art objects in the Berger Collection present a history of the British School from its origins among anonymous Norman artists to the achievements of painters working in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. A particular strength is its assemblage of medieval and Renaissance artworks. Among the preeminent artists represented in the collection are Hans Holbein the Younger, Sir Anthony van Dyck, Thomas Gainsborough, Angelica Kauffman, John Constable, David Roberts, Edward Lear, John Ruskin, Sir Alfred J. Munnings, and David Hockney.
The Berger Collection is mostly housed at the Denver Art Museum, where a selection of artworks is on display on a rotating basis.