Rourke Art Museum

Rourke Art Museum and Gallery
The Rourke Art Museum from Main Avenue
Established	June, 1960
Location	521 Main Avenue Moorhead, Minnesota
Type	Art museum
Website	www.therourke.org

Federal Courthouse and Post Office
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Location	521 Main Ave., Moorhead, Minnesota
Coordinates	46°52′24″N 96°46′15″W / 46.87333°N 96.77083°W / 46.87333; -96.77083Coordinates: 46°52′24″N 96°46′15″W / 46.87333°N 96.77083°W / 46.87333; -96.77083
Area	less than one acre
Built	1915
Architect	Wenderoth,Oscar
Architectural style	Classical Revival
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, 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, 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, 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 2 Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Thomas Harvey (December 1979). "Clay County MRA" (PDF). National Park Service. p. 9.

External links

Rourke Art Museum - official website

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Museums in Minnesota

Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metropolitan Area	American Swedish Institute The Bakken Bandana Square Bell Museum of Natural History Historic Fort Snelling Hennepin History Museum James J. Hill House Oliver H. Kelley Homestead Mill City Museum Minneapolis Institute of Art Minneapolis Sculpture Garden Minnesota Center for Book Arts Minnesota Children's Museum Minnesota History Center Minnesota Streetcar Museum Minnesota Transportation Museum Museum of Lake Minnetonka The Museum of Russian Art Pavek Museum of Broadcasting Science Museum of Minnesota Walker Art Center Weisman Art Museum

Duluth	Glensheen Historic Estate Great Lakes Aquarium William A. Irvin Floating Ship Museum Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center Lake Superior Railroad Museum Tweed Museum of Art

Elsewhere	3M Museum (Two Harbors) Hjemkomst Center (Moorhead) Minnesota Music Hall of Fame (New Ulm) Two Harbors Light (Two Harbors) United States Hockey Hall of Fame (Eveleth) Mille Lacs Indian Museum (Onamia) Minnesota Military Museum (Fort Ripley) Minnesota Marine Art Museum (Winona) Rourke Art Museum (Moorhead)

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