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Rourke Art Museum and Gallery 
Established June, 1960 Location 521 Main Avenue
Moorhead, MinnesotaType Art museum Director John Rowell Website www.wix.com/TheRourke Federal Courthouse and Post Office
Location: 521 Main Ave., Moorhead, Minnesota Coordinates: 46°52′24″N 96°46′15″W / 46.87333°N 96.77083°WCoordinates: 46°52′24″N 96°46′15″W / 46.87333°N 96.77083°W Area: less than one acre Built: 1915 Architect: Wenderoth,Oscar Architectural style: Classical Revival Governing body: Local MPS: Clay County MRA NRHP Reference#: 80002015[1] Added to NRHP: May 7, 1980 The Rourke Art Museum is a fine arts museum in Moorhead, Minnesota founded by James O'Rourke. The associated Rourke Art Gallery is nearby at 523 South Fourth Street in the historic Martinson House, built in 1875. These two institutions comprise The Rourke Art Gallery Museum, a public non-profit corporation.
The art museum can be found at 521 Main Avenue in a historic Federal Courthouse and Post Office, built 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, Robert Rauschenberg, David Gilhooly, Leonard Baskin, Fritz Scholder, Luis Jimenez, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall, and Adolf Dehn.
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ Thomas Harvey (December, 1979). "Clay County MRA". National Park Service. p. 9. http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/64000348.pdf.
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- Art museums in Minnesota
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