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The Midwest Museum of American Art is a non-profit public art museum located in downtown Elkhart, Indiana, United States.

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Midwest Museum of American Art

Established	1979
Location	429 South Main Street, Elkhart, Indiana, US, 46516 (574) 293-6660
Coordinates	41.6832°N 85.9718°W / 41.6832; -85.9718
Type	Art museum
Website	midwestmuseum.us

The museum's 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m²) space houses a collection focusing on 19th and 20th century American art. Its collection includes selections of Abstract expressionism, American Impressionism, the Chicago Imagists, Overbeck art pottery, Pop art, Regionalism, the Ashcan School, and Western art (art from the American West).[1] Artworks in the collection include works by Norman Rockwell, Hans Hofmann, Edward Moran, Roger Brown, Grant Wood, Arthur Bowen Davies, Ralph Albert Blakelock and many others.

Each fall the museum hosts the Elkhart Juried Regional competition.[2] The museum publishes a quarterly newsletter and published its first Catalogue of the Permanent Collection in 2004.[3]

References

External links

• Media related to Midwest Museum of American Art at Wikimedia Commons

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