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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Four Mexican artists who dramatized their subjects by framing them along the photograph’s diagonal
Still life works created over the past 200 years
Work from past shows that became part of the collection
Major forms and periods from ancient times through the present
Works on paper from the late 1960s - early 1970s, by Oaxacan artist Francisco Toledo
Explores the layered meanings in a single work of portraiture
Photographs by two among the new wave of photographers active in Tucson in the 1970s.
Explores how artists incorporate personal identity into their work
Modernism in Taos, Santa Fe, & Albuquerque, from the beginning of the 20th century through the 1970s.
Contemporary Indigenous Art featuring paintings and works on paper
Showcases the most innovative and diverse work being created in AZ
Traditions of Maya storytelling and image-making from antiquity to today
European art from pre-1920 reveals blurred boundaries between sacredness and the commonplace
Examines the range of ideas and stories from beyond the Mexican tradition
Representations of the complex connections between body, mind, and spirit.