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Established
  
June, 1960

Website
  
www.therourke.org

Phone
  
+1 218-236-8861

Type
  
Art museum

Year built
  
1915

Added to NRHP
  
7 May 1980

Rourke Art Museum

Location
  
521 Main Avenue Moorhead, Minnesota

Address
  
521 Main Ave, Moorhead, MN 56560, USA

Hours
  
Closed today ThursdayClosedFriday1–5PMSaturday1–5PMSunday1–5PMMondayClosedTuesdayClosedWednesdayClosedSuggest an edit

Similar
  
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Profiles

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

Contents

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.


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

Rourke Art Museum Wikipedia