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Rourke Art Museum

Rourke Art Museum

Art museum in Moorhead, Minnesota


The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum is a fine arts museum in Moorhead, Minnesota, United States, founded by James O'Rourke.

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The art museum can be found at 521 Main Avenue in a historic Federal Courthouse and Post Office, erected in 1915. The building was included in a study of historic properties in Clay County, which said the building "shows the influence of Federal government function in most towns."[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]

Permanent collections

The museum's permanent collections contain more than four-thousand works from an array of cultural and artistic traditions including West African, Islamic, Chinese, Japanese, Pre-Columbian, Contemporary and Colonial Mexican, American Indian, contemporary American, Regionalist, and Pop Art. Artists whose work is represented include Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Allan D'Arcangelo, Robert Rauschenberg, David Gilhooly, Leonard Baskin, Fritz Scholder, Luis Jiménez, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, Sir William Nicholson, and Adolf Dehn.


References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Thomas Harvey (December 1979). "Clay County MRA". National Park Service. p. 9.

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