Rourke Art Museum - Wikipedia

The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum
The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum from Main Avenue

Established	June 1960
Location	521 Main Avenue Moorhead, Minnesota
Type	Art museum
Website	www.therourke.org


Federal Courthouse and Post Office
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location	521 Main Ave., Moorhead, Minnesota
Coordinates	46°52′24″N 96°46′15″W / 46.87333°N 96.77083°W / 46.87333; -96.77083
Area	less than one acre
Built	1915
Architect	Wenderoth, Oscar
Architectural style	Classical Revival
MPS	Clay County MRA
NRHP reference No.	80002015^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 7, 1980

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

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

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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

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

External links

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Media related to Rourke Art Museum at Wikimedia Commons

The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum - official website

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