Art
Des Moines Art Center
Des Moines, Iowa
About
The Des Moines Art Center is one of the most architecturally distinguished art museums in the United States, with three connected wings designed by Eliel Saarinen (1948), I.M. Pei (1968), and Richard Meier (1985). Its collection of approximately 6,000 works focuses on modern and contemporary art, with particular strengths in American and European painting and sculpture from 1900 to the present.
Highlights & Things Not to Miss
Three Landmark Buildings
Architecture by Saarinen, Pei, and Meier in dialogue
Modern Masters
Key works of American and European modernism
Sculpture Court
I.M. Pei's soaring sculpture court with natural light