Admission is Always Free
The Museum is located on the NE corner of the Amarillo College Washington Street Campus.

Extended Hours:
The Museum is open until 9:00 p.m. every THURSDAY.

Museum Hours: Tues - Fri...10-5 p.m. Sat - Sun...1-5 p.m. Location: 2200 S. Van Buren Amarillo, Texas 79109 Mailing Address: PO Box 447 Amarillo, Texas 79178 Phone: Fax: E-mail: 806-371-5050 806-373-9235 amoa@actx.edu Museum is closed: Mondays, January 1st, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, December 24 - 25th and during installation weeks.

The building and the surrounding complex were designed by noted architect Edward Durell Stone, who had previously designed the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., as well as numerous government embassies around the world. The 24,000 square foot facility was built, in the late International style, of reinforced concrete and steel with exterior walls clad in brick. Six galleries are programmed with 16 exhibitions per year focused on changing loan exhibitions and art from the Museum's permanent collections. Loan exhibitions present works of contemporary art in all media, art historical shows of American and European master works, and art produced by a myriad of world cultures. Works shown from the permanent collection include early to mid 20th century modernists, photography, European paintings from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, Middle Eastern textiles, and Asian art from the 1st century B.C. through the mid 19th century.

Francesco Guardi (1721-1793) The Grand Canal and Punta, Della Dogana, ca. 1760 Bequest of Lawrence Hagy

The earliest collection focus was early American Modernist paintings and today the collection is best represented in this area by the four Georgia O'Keeffe watercolors and several works by John Marin. These works are in the context of other members of their circle such as Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Paul Strand, and Alfred Stieglitz. mid-century Modernists are represented by a particularly nice Franz Kline and important pieces by Louise Nevelson and Helen Frankenthaler.

A small group of European paintings from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries are best represented by two excellent paintings from the mid 1700s by the Italian painter Francesco Guardi.

The photography holdings are dominated by the work of F.S.A. photographer RusselI Lee however, excellent examples of his colleagues Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Jack Delano and Marion Post Wolcott are included.

Since 1995 the Museum's Asian art collection has grown dramatically through the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. Price of Amarillo. The collection includes representative textiles from every primary weaving area of the Middle East with examples from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. A comprehensive selection of Edo period Japanese wood block prints by all the major artists is in place and being added to yearly by the Prices. Of particular interest are the South and Southeast Asian sculpture holdings in this collection. Again, this area continues to grow, but currently the collection has Buddhist and Hindu pieces ranging from 2nd century B.C. Gandharan works to 9th century Java and 14th century Khmer sculpture.