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Established | 1948 |
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Location | 4700 Grand Avenue Des Moines, Iowa |
Director | Jeff Fleming |
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Des Moines Art Center
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Location | 4700 Grand Ave., Des Moines, Iowa, United States |
Coordinates | 41°35′0″N 93°40′52″W / 41.58333°N 93.68111°WCoordinates: 41°35′0″N 93°40′52″W / 41.58333°N 93.68111°W |
Built | 1948 |
Architectural style | International Style |
NRHP Reference # | 03000063 |
Added to NRHP | October 19, 2004 |
The Des Moines Art Center is an art museum with an extensive collection of paintings, sculpture, modern art and mixed media. It was established in 1948 in Des Moines, Iowa.
A large main gallery rotates through several exhibitions throughout the year, most of which are featured from one to three months at a time. These shows include solo shows by internationally recognized artists, travelling shows from other institutions, and group shows organized around a theme. The rest of the museum space highlights the permanent collections in various ways, including small spaces for short-term print and photography shows, a video gallery, and long-term installations organized both chronologically and thematically. Included on the grounds are outdoor sculptures and a rose garden. An external reflecting pool is surrounded on all sides by the museum.
Artists included in the permanent collection are Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Francis Bacon, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gerhard Richter, Claes Oldenburg, Mary Cassatt, Auguste Rodin, Grant Wood, Deborah Butterfield, Paul Gauguin, Eva Hesse, Ronnie Landfield, Roy Lichtenstein, George Segal, Mark Rothko, John Singer Sargent, Joseph Cornell and Takashi Murakami.