On Sunday, August 17th, my nephew Shannon and I roamed through the Des Moines Art Center and enjoyed their collection of paintings, sketches, prints, and sculptures mostly from the 20th Century.
The museum has grown with two additions since my last visit 40 plus years ago and has added to it's collections.
The museum was designed by three architects, Eliel Saarinen, I.M. Pei, and Richard Meier, each with district styles and separate wings of the museum built over many years.
Here is some of what we enjoyed:
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| "Automat," 1927 by Edward Hopper, American, 1882-1967 |
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| "La Nuit," 1909 by Aristide Malilol, French, 1861-1944 |
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"Jackie Diptych," 1964 by Andy Warhol, American, 1928-1987
Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen inks on canvas |
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"Torse Gerbe (Sheaf Torso)," 1958 by Hans (Jean) Arp, French, 1886-1966
Marble |
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| "Head of a Woman," 1943 by Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1880-1973 |
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| "Bandage Girl," 2002 by Kiki Smith, American born 1954 |
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| "Talisman," 1958 by Robert Rauschenberg, American, 1925-2008 |
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| "Black and White Collage," 1953 by Lee Krasner |
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"Ocean Circle," 1996 by Richard Long, British, born 1945
Connecticut blue slate
Painting in background is "Whirl," 1960 by Kenneth Noland, American, 1924-2010 |
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| "Man and Pegasus," 1949 by Carl Miles, Swedish, 1875-1955 |
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| "Colossal Torso I," 1958 by Leon Golub, American, 1922-2004 |
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"The Flock II," 1990 by Magadalena Abakanowicz, Polish, born 1930
Thirty-five figures, burlap and resin |
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| "The Great Pyramid," 1969 by Roy Lichtenstein, American 19231997 |
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| "Wall Drawing #601, Forms Derived From The Cube (25 Variations)," 1989 by Sol LeWitt, American, 1928-2007 |
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| "Man Pointing," 1947 by Alberto Giacometti, Swiss, 1901-1966 |
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| "Nude Study for The Burghers of Calais," 1885-1886 by Auguste Rodin, French, 1840-1917 |
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| "The Disciples See Christ Walking on the Water," 1907 by Henry Ossawa Tanner, American, 1859-1937 |
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| "Valley of the Loue," 1865 by Gustave Courbet, French 1819-1877 |
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| "Lady in Blue Paying a Call," 1903 by Edouard Vuillard, French, 1869-1940 |
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| "Portraits of Edouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron," 1881 by John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925 |
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| "Bridge in Snow (Brooklyn Bridge in Winter)," 1894 by Childe Hssam, American 1859-1935 |
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| "From the Lake No. 1," 1924 by Georgia O'Keeffe, American 1887-1986 |
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| "Mont Saint Victoire," 1927 by Marsden Hartley, American, 1877-1943 |
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| "Abstraction on Spectrum (Organization 5)," 1914 by Stanton Macdonald-Wright, American, 1890-1973 |
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| "Tulips in a Blue Vase," 1946 by Thomas Hart Benton, American 1889-1975 |
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| "The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover," 1931 by Grant Wood, American, 1891-1942 |
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| "House with Fir Trees in the Snow," 1938 by Gabriele Munter, German 1877-1962 |
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| "Still Life,: 1908 by Mikhail Larionov, Russian, 1881-1964 |
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"Fishers (Pond)," 1909 by Natalla Goncharova, Russian, 1881-1962 |
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| "Directional Lines (or Dissonance)," 1913 by Olga Rozanava, 1886-1918 |
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| "Maiastra," 1912-13 by Constantin Brancusi, Romanian, active France, 1876-1957 |
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| "Women, Bird, Stars," 1942 by Joan Miro, Spanish, 1893-1983 |
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| "Abstract Head: Inner-Vision-Gray-Blue-Pink," 1927 by Alexel von Jawlensky, Russian active Germany, 1864-1941 |
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| "Seated Figure," 1916 by Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian, active France and the United States, 1887-1964 |
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| Marc Chagall, Belarussian-Russian-French, 1887-1985 |
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| "Study After Velasquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X," 1953 by Francis Bacon, English, 1909-1992 |
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| "Seated Woman (Thin Neck) 1961, by Henry Moore, British, 1898-1986 |
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| "Figure," 1945 by Isamu Noguchi, American, 1904-1989 |
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| "Woman in White," 1946 by Henri Matisse, French 1869-1954 |
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| "Yellow Blue," 1963 by Ellsworth Kelly, American born 1923 |
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| "Summer No. 2," 1957 by Sam Francis, American 1923-1994 |
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| "Chalk Zone," 1968 by Helen Frankenthaler, American 1928-2011 |
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| "Three Way Piece No. 1," 1964-65 by Henry Moore |
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| "Blue and Green on Blue-Black," 1965 by Adolph Gottlleb, American 1903-1974 |
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| "Light Over Gray," 1956 by Mark Rothko, American, born Russia, 1903-1970 |
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| "Samurai Tree (Invariant 1)," by Gabriel Orozco, Mexican, born 1962 |
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| "Animal Pyramid," 1990 by Bruce Nauman, American, born 1941 |
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| "Piggyback (Left)," by Juan Munoz, Spanish, 1952-2001 |
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| "The Lighthouse Pub, New Buffalo," 1985 by Roger Brown, American, 1941-1997 |
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| "Untitled (Hoover)," 1986 by Deborah Butterfield, American, born 1949 |
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| "Sunflower Flower Seeds," 2009 By Al Weiwei, Chinese, born 1957, 560-pound pile of hand-painted porcelain seeds painted by 1600 artisans in a Chinese village that once provided porcelain to the imperial court. |
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| "Untitled," 1984 by Jean-Michel Basquiat, American, 1960-1988 |
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| "Ocean Park No. 70," 1974 by Richard Diebenkorn, American, 1922-1993 |
