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Current Exhibitions

CIVIL disobedience monumental RIGHTS September 4, 2020 – January 3, 2021 An installation of the suite of lithograph prints of Billy Morrow Jackson’s Protest Drawings surrounding a proposed monument of Stonewall Jackson […]

Permanent Collection

The Swope Art Museum is known for its extraordinary collection of nearly 2,500 works of American art including paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the 19th century to the present. […]

Treasures of the Swope

Tompkins Harrison Matteson (Peterboro, New York 1813 – Sherburne, New York 1884) Washington’s Fairwell to HIs Officers, 11855 Oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 47 1/2 inches Gift of the […]

Treasures of the Swope

William T. Turman (Graysville, Indiana 1867 – Taft, California 1960) Jewel Pool, 1945 Oil on paperboard, 25 13/16 x 35 13/16 inches Bequest of Beatrice W. Sayer 1997.03 “Jewel […]

Treasures of the Swope

Thomas Hart Benton (Neosho, Missouri 1889 – Kansas City, Missouri 1975) Threshing Wheat, 19 Oil and tempera, 26 1/6 x 42 1/4 inches Museum purchase 1942.02 Threshing wheat was once […]

Treasures of the Swope

James Farrington Gookins (Terre Haute, Indiana 1840 – 1904 New York, New York) Fairy Marauders, 1887 Oil on canvas, 20.5 x 17 inches Gift to the Museum by an anonymous […]

CIVIL disobedience, monumental RIGHTS Sepember 4, 2020 – January 3, 2021

September 4, 2020 – January 3, 2021 Schell Gallery An installation of the suite of lithograph prints of Billy Morrow Jackson’s Protest Drawings surrounding a proposed monument of Stonewall Jackson and Robert […]

People of the Wabash Valley August 21 – October 11, 2020

People of the Wabash Valley August 21 – October 11, 2020 Figurative works curated from our collection of past Wabash Valley Exhibition acquisitions.

still. August 21 – October 4, 2020

August 21 – October 4, 2020 Slow down and rediscover the joy of looking at art in selected large works from the permanent collection.

A Tribute to Artist William Bailey

William Bailey (November 1930 – April 2020) On April 13, 2020, American artist and university professor William Bailey passed away at age 89. The Stage, 1964, is in the permanent […]