Tom
Lea Gallery
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Dorrance and Olga Roderick Gallery
Peter and Margaret de Wetter Gallery
Contemporary Gallery
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The El Paso Museum of Art is a major cultural and educational
resource for the city of El Paso and surrounding region.
Located on the boundaries of Texas, New Mexico and Mexico,
the Museum is situated within the world’s largest
international border community whose metropolitan
population is over three million people.
The
Museum houses a permanent collection of more than 5,000
works of art, including the Samuel H. Kress Collection of
European art from the 13th-18th centuries, American art from
the 19th-20th centuries, Mexican colonial art and retablos
from the 18th-19th centuries, works on paper, and
contemporary art from the Southwestern United States and
Mexico.
In
addition to displaying works from its holdings, the Museum
presents a diverse schedule of temporary exhibitions, films,
lectures, concerts, and other educational programs for the
public.
European Painting and Sculpture
One of the Southwest’s finest gatherings of European art,
the Samuel H. Kress Collection includes outstanding examples
of Renaissance and Baroque art from Italy, France, Spain,
and the Netherlands. Among the collection’s highlights are
works by Bernardo Bellotto, Canaletto, Artemisia
Gentilischi, and Bartolome Esteban Murillo.
Art
of Mexico and New Spain
Installed in the Dorrance and Olga Roderick Gallery, the
Museum’s collection of Mexican colonial art features
paintings and sculptures created between the 17th and 19th
centuries. Examples from the Museum’s large collection of
Mexican retablos are on display along with works from Peru
and other regional schools of the Spanish Vice-Royalty.
American Painting and Sculpture
The Museum houses one of the region’s most extensive
collections of American art from the early 19th century
through the mid 20th century. On view in the Dick and
Francis Mithoff Gallery are outstanding examples of early
American portraits by Rembrandt Peale, Thomas Sully, and
Gilbert Stuart; American Impressionist paintings by William
Merrit Chase, Childe Hassam, and Edmund C. Tarbell; American
Scene paintings by John Grabach, Robert Henri, and John
Sloan; and Modernist works by Milton Avery, John Marin, and
Max Weber. The Tom Lea Gallery features works by native El
Pasoan Tom Lea and other artists from the Southwest,
including Gustave Bauman, E. Irving Couse, Fremont Ellis,
Joseph Henry Sharp, and Henriette Wyeth.
Contemporary Art
During the past decade, the Museum has developed a major
collection of contemporary works in all media by artists
based in the southwestern United States and Mexico, with a
particular focus on Texas, New Mexico, and the Border
region. Among the artists represented are Susan Davidoff,
James Drake, Gaspar Enriquez, Vernon Fisher, Joseph Havel,
Anna Jacquez, Luis Jimenez, James Magee and Annabel
Livermore, Jesus Bautista Moroles, and James Surls.
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
The Museum’s extensive holdings of works on paper include
more than 2,500 prints, drawings, and photographs. Shown on
a rotating basis in the Peter and Margaret de Wetter Gallery
and elsewhere in the Museum, this collection features fine
examples of Old Master prints, 19th-century reproductive
engravings, and American Scene prints. Recent acquisitions
have focused on contemporary American prints and photography
of the American West.
Temporary Exhibitions
The Museum presents 10 to 12 exhibitions per year, including
major traveling shows and special installations drawn from
the permanent collection. Many of these exhibitions are
presented in the Museum’s 7,500-square-foot changing
gallery. The Museum’s ongoing Focus series features
the work of emerging contemporary artists from the
surrounding region.
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The El Paso Museum
of Art