The Des Moines Art Center tells the story of modern and contemporary art.
It features 19th-century Impressionism to the best of today’s international art. The collections include painting, sculpture, photography, prints, video, fiber, and other craft-based works.
The Art Center has built a renowned collection of international modern and contemporary art.
The Art Center's goal is to emphasize quality over quantity, striving to collect a signature example of each artist's work. Highlights include Georgia O'Keeffe (From the Lake No. 1, 1924), Edward Hopper (Automat, 1927), Francis Bacon (Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953), Ai Weiwei (Sunflower Seeds, 2009), and Wangechi Mutu (Water Woman, 2017), to name a few.
