PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

The Des Moines Art Center has amassed an important Permanent Collection with a major emphasis on contemporary art. The Permanent Collection's overriding principle is a representation of artists from the nineteenth century to the present, each through a seminal work. This accounts for an impressive collection that ranges from Edward Hopper's Automat to Jasper Johns' Tennyson, Henri Matisse’s Woman in White, Georgia O’Keeffe’s From the Lake No. 1, and Francis Bacon’s Study after Velásquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X.

The Permanent Collections includes a number of collections that have been established through donation of funds or bequests of artwork. These collections include the Irma and Julian Brody Collection, John C. Huseby Print Collection, Louise Noun Collection of Art by Women, Paul and Anastasia Polydoran Collection, and most notably the Nathan Emory Coffin Collection.

For information about pieces in the Collections, email:

Mickey Koch, associate registrar, mkoch@desmoinesartcenter.org

or Laura Burkhalter, assistant curator, lburkhalter@desmoinesartcenter.org

or write to:

Collection Research Request
Des Moines Art Center
4700 Grand Avenue
Des Moines, Iowa 50312-2099

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