Tom
Lea Gallery
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Dorrance and Olga Roderick Gallery
Peter and Margaret de Wetter Gallery
Contemporary Gallery |
The El Paso Museum of Art is the fine arts museum of the City of
El Paso and a major cultural and educational resource for the
surrounding region.
Located on the boundary of Texas, Mexico, and New Mexico, the Museum
is situated within the world’s largest international border
community with a metropolitan population of approximately 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. |
