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2 unusual facts about Des Moines Art Center


Des Moines Art Center

These include Edward Hopper's "Automat", which was reproduced on a postage stamp as well as used for a cover of Time magazine, Stanton MacDonald Wright's "Synchromy" which has been reproduced in numerous texts about the artist/movement, Francis Bacon's "Portrait of Pope Innocent" which likewise is considered a signature work by the artist and appeared in Robert Hughes "Shock of the New" BBC series in the early 1980s.

Virginia Dwan

the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University; the Weatherspoon Art Museum; and the Des Moines Art Center.


Thomas Dolliver Church

He designed the grounds of the American Embassy in Havana, Cuba, the General Motors Research Center in Detroit, the Des Moines Art Center, the Hotel El Panama in Panama City, and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and Parkmerced in San Francisco.


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