During your visit to the El Paso Museum of Art, explore its permanent collection of over 6,000 works of art and special exhibitions. El Paso Museum of Art also offers a unique shopping experience in the Museum Store.
El Paso Museum of Art Permanent Collection
European Art
At the core of El Paso Museum of Art’s European Art Collection is the Samuel H. Kress Collection, comprised of paintings and sculpture from the 13th through 18th centuries. Within the collection are works by such notables as: Bernardo Bellotto, Canaletto, Jusepe de Ribera, Giovanni di Paolo, Lavinia Fontana, Artemesia Gentileschi, Lorenzo Lotto, Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Bernardo Strozzi, Anthony van Dyck and Francisco Zubarán.
Spanish Viceroyal
The art museum’s Spanish Viceroyal reflects the period of the Spanish Empire in the New World. Spanning from the 17th through 19th centuries, works within the collection include paintings on panel, canvas, copper and tin by artists including: Nicolás Enríquez, Antonío de Torres, Francisco Martínez, and Juan Sánchez Salmerón.
Works on Paper
The Works on Paper Collection is comprised of over 2,500 prints, drawings, watercolors, posters, artists’ books and photographs from the 16th through 20th centuries. Works within the collection are by artists: Ansel Adams, Romare Bearden, Thomas Hart Benton, Manuel Carrillo, Paul Cézanne, William Merritt Chase, Woody Crumbo, Jusepe de Ribera, Edgar Degas, Albrecht Dürer, Hendrik Goltzius, Francisco Goya, Gene Kloss, José Clemente Orozco, Jaune Quick-To-See-Smith, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Teódulo Rómulo, John Valadez, Vincent Valdez, Rembrandt van Rijn and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.
Contemporary
The Contemporary Collection is comprised of works of art that concentrate on the southwest region including: Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Mexico. Within the collection are paintings and sculpture by : Julie Bozzi, Carlos Callejo, Susan Davidoff, James Drake, Gaspar Enríquez, Vernon Fisher, Sam Gilliam, Carmen Lomas Garza, Harry Geffert, Gronk, Luis Jiménez, Donald Judd, Jim Love, Gilbert Lujan, James Magee, Melissa Miller, Jesus Bautista Moroles, Celia Muñoz, Kermit Oliver, Nadezda Prvulovic, Linda Ridgway, María Sada, Fritz Scholder, James Surls, and Willie Varela.
American
El Paso Museum of Art boasts one of the region’s most extensive collections of 19th and 20th century American art with emphasis on the art of the southwest including Taos and Santa Fe Masters and artists from the El Paso area. The American Collection features the works of artists like Manuel Acosta, Gustave Baumann and Ernest Blumenschein. Additional American holdings include outstanding examples of early American portraits by Rembrandt Peale, Thomas Sully, and Gilbert Stuart; American Scene paintings by John Grabach, Robert Henri, and John Sloan; Modernist works by Milton Avery, John Marin and Max Weber; and works by American Impressionists Edward Bannister, Frank Boggs, William Merritt Chase, John Edward Costigan, Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, Henry O. Tanner, Edmund C. Tarbell and John Twachtman.
Shopping in the Museum Store
Be sure to stop by the Museum Store. Items related to the Museum’s permanent collection and special exhibits such as books and paintings are available to purchase.
- El Paso Museum of Art is ADA compliant.
- In addition to exhibiting works of art from its permanent collection, El Paso Museum of Art regularly hosts special art exhibits. Examples of past exhibits include Paul Strand in Mexico, Monet To Matisse and Fiesta of Color: The Art of Oswaldo Sgastegui.
- Do not forget your camera. Non-flash photography for personal use is permitted in the Museum’s permanent collection galleries.