The Museum's permanent collections center on Art of the American West, Art of Latin America, Modern and Contemporary Art, and Rare Books and Manuscripts
The Latin America collection includes pre-Columbian art produced prior to the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century, spanning approximately 2,000 years, from 500 B.C. to 1500 A.D. The Contemporary collection represents European and American modernists.
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Exhibitions & Dates
I’m Every Woman: Representations of Women on Paper
Aug 13 2019 - Sep 6 2020
Select prints and drawings reveal multiple histories and roles of women
Avoiding the collapse into a series of major isms. - Selections of European art from the permanent collection.
Dec 5 2019 - Sep 6 2020
Six centuries of paintings, sculptures, photography, works on paper, glass, ceramics, and decorative arts.
Oaxacan Folk Art - from the Shepard Barbash and Vicki Ragan Collection
Oct 3 2019 - Aug 9 2020
One of the nation’s premier collections of Oaxacan woodcarving and ceramics
Harry Brorby: The Strength of a Cold Line.
Oct 19 2019 - Feb 9 2020
Three decades of painting, printmaking, and sculpture, dancing between figurative and abstract concepts
Patrick Martinez: Falling Empire.
Mar 22 2020 - Sep 20 2020
Variety of media colorfully pesent the artist’s depiction of a fading American promise
Southwest Rising: Contemporary Art and the Legacy of Elaine Horwitch
Feb 29 2020 - Jun 21 2020
Reveals the breadth of art and innovation that occurred in the Southwest at a pivotal time of change.
The Western Sublime: Majestic Landscapes of the American West
Oct 19 2019 - Feb 9 2020
Various media consider the sublime landscape and its effect on the peoples, histories, and cultures of the American West past & present
Dwayne Manuel: Landslice
Aug 5 2019 - Jun 30 2020
Installation honors three mountains sacred to O’odham himdak (culture/way of life)