Rourke Art Museum Explained

The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum
Established:June 1960
Type:Art museum
Federal Courthouse and Post Office
Location:521 Main Ave., Moorhead, Minnesota
Coordinates:46.8733°N -96.7708°W
Built:1915
Architect:Wenderoth, Oscar
Architecture:Classical Revival
Added:May 7, 1980
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:80002015

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."[1] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=64000348}} Clay County MRA]. December 1979. Thomas Harvey. National Park Service. 9.