Established June, 1960 Website www.therourke.org Phone +1 218-236-8861 | Year built 1915 Added to NRHP 7 May 1980 | |
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Location 521 Main AvenueMoorhead, Minnesota Hours Closed today ThursdayClosedFriday1–5PMSaturday1–5PMSunday1–5PMMondayClosedTuesdayClosedWednesdayClosedSuggest an edit Similar Hjemkomst Center, Plains Art Museum, Fargo Air Museum, Red River Zoo, Rourke Art Gallery Profiles | ||
The Rourke Art 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, 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." It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The rourke art museum gallery
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.