Rourke Art Museum

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

Rourke Art Museum and Gallery
The Rourke Art Museum from Main Avenue
EstablishedJune, 1960
Location521 Main Avenue
Moorhead, Minnesota
TypeArt museum
Websitewww.therourke.org
Federal Courthouse and Post Office
Location521 Main Ave., Moorhead, Minnesota
Coordinates46°52′24″N 96°46′15″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1915
ArchitectWenderoth, Oscar
Architectural styleClassical Revival
MPSClay County MRA
NRHP reference No.80002015[1]
Added to NRHPMay 7, 1980

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

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

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