John and Mary Pappajohn Gallery and Studio Map Welcome to the Des Moines Art Center! Sculpture Park bell bell P Open to visitors since September 2009, the P The Des Moines Art Center is a world-class museum in the heart of the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park Midwest. With a focus on contemporary art, it has amassed an important features artwork by 19 of the world’s most collection exhibited in three major buildings, on the grounds, and Photo © Cameron Cam celebrated artists. The 4.4 acre park, located Photo © Cameron Cam downtown in the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park. We hope you within a major crossroads of the urban grid, The first addition on the south side of the The second addition, on the north, was museum was designed by I. M. Pei and opened designed by Richard Meier and opened enjoy your visit and that you will return soon! creates a pedestrian friendly entranceway in 1968. in 1985. to downtown Des Moines. This accessible FREE admission Restaurant setting, coupled with the skilled landscape To Pei Building design and caliber of the art, makes it (with the exception of some The Art Center Restaurant, located directly special events) across the Maytag Courtyard, offers a unlike any other sculpture park in the United To Meier Building Meredith Gallery States. The Pappajohns’ contribution of West Gallery lunch menu that is inspired by fresh, local 25 works for the park is the most significant W.T. and Edna Dahl Visitor Guide Museum Hours ingredients and changes weekly. Wine, Gallery Tuesday – Friday: 11 am – 4 pm spirits, and homemade desserts are donation of artwork ever made to the Restaurant Upper Level Thursday: 11 am – 9 pm available. Please see one of the servers to Des Moines Art Center. Jaume Plensa (Spanish, born 1955) Saturday: 10 am – 4 pm be seated; children’s menus are available. The Art Center collection’s overriding Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967) Educational Programs Nomade, 2007 Wells Fargo Automat, 1927 Gallery Sunday: 12 – 4 pm The John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park Painted stainless steel, 324 x 204 x 216 inches Cowles Sculpture Court Maytag principle is a representation of artists of Oil on canvas, 28 1/8 x 36 inches Engaging our visitors with the art of our time Florence Cowles Reflecting Pool Restaurant Hours is a collaborative effort of the Pappajohns, the City of Promised gift from John and Mary Pappajohn Main Level Kruidenier Building Closed Mondays and select holidays the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, each Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; is at the heart of the Art Center’s mission. Des Moines, the Des Moines Art Center, and numerous to the Des Moines Art Center Tuesday – Saturday: 11 am – 2 pm Purchased with funds from the Edmundson Art corporate and private funders. Photography © Cameron Campbell Through a vast array of fun and educational Lower Level Closed Sundays and Mondays through a seminal work. This accounts Foundation, Inc. 1958.2 Museum Shop for an impressive collection that ranges programming such as tours, classes, family To Levitt Auditorium Courtyard GalleryAnna K. Meredith The Museum Shop, located to the north of weekends, lectures, gallery talks, and films, Lower Level Museum Shop Assistance from Edward Hopper’s Automat (above) Preservation the Information Desk, offers gifts, jewelry, the Art Center offers many options to make To Pei Building Art Center security is located throughout to Jasper Johns’ Tennyson, Henri We hope you will help us preserve the A.H. Blank Galleries Lobby cards, books, posters, magnets, home the artwork exhibited more meaningful for the galleries. If you need assistance during Matisse’s Woman in White, Georgia works of art in our care for future generations Gail and décor, and items related to the Permanent all ages. For more information, please Stanley Print Gallery your visit, please see a member of security or O’Keeffe’s From the Lake No. 1, and by observing a few guidelines. Richards Collection, the John and Mary Pappajohn visit www.desmoinesartcenter.org or call Studio 3 staff at the Information Desk, Museum Shop, Mary and John Pappajohn Francis Bacon’s Study after Velásquez’s • Please do not touch the artwork Education Gallery Sculpture Park, and special exhibitions. 515.277.4405 for a full calendar of events. Main Entrance or Restaurant. Entrance Art Center members receive discounts on Portrait of Pope Innocent X. (including sculpture). Many works of art are fragile. To minimize the possibility of an merchandise, excluding consignment items. Tours Margaret Studio Studio accident, please keep back at least one 5 Brennen 1 Learn something new and have fun too. Studio foot, and check any large bags and/or Lower Main Adrienne and Join us! Take a tour of any exhibition, the Art Level Level Charles Herbert Audio Guides umbrellas at the Information Desk. Education Galleries Year-long memberships may be purchased Access Center’s renowned Permanent Collection, Principal A free self-guided audio tour of highlights Studios in the Museum Shop and various shops in The Art Center is wheelchair and stroller • Food and drink (including chewing- or the Pappajohn Sculpture Park. We can . Studio Studio in the Art Center’s Permanent Collection 6 2 the Des Moines metro area. In addition to accessible. There are two accessible gum) are allowed only in the accommodate groups from 2 to 90 people, is available. Please ask for an iPod and Facility Rental shop discounts, benefits of membership entrances: one to the south of the Main Restaurant and Courtyard. Feel free to and it’s a perfect activity for a family, work headphones at the Information Desk. A The Art Center is available for receptions, Studio 7 include free admission to select special Entrance at the Education Entrance, and one leave drinks or to-go boxes from the team, or social group. Please schedule driver’s license or other form of collateral is corporate events, and other special events, discounts on classes, invitations to to the north, in the Richard Meier building Restaurant at the Information Desk as at least three weeks in advance. Contact To Greenwood Park requested during use of the iPods and will occasions. Contact 515.271.0336 or Aerial view of the Pappajohn Sculpture Park. Photography © Cameron Campbell and Andy Goldsworthy’s exhibition openings, and more! Members facing Grand Avenue. Wheelchairs are you tour the galleries. [email protected] or Three Cairns. be returned at the conclusion of your tour. [email protected] for more also have the opportunity to join affiliate available at the Information Desk. Accessible 515.271.0328. • Due to copyright issues, photography information. Pappajohn Sculpture Park N Restrooms The original building, designed by Eliel Saarinen, groups such as Art Noir and Print Club. restrooms are available via the elevators at opened in 1948. is permitted only outside the building. Adult Group Tours: Extend your 12th Street Information Desk and Audio Tours the Education Entrance and in the Richard Ingersoll Avenue 13th Street Locust Street Your membership also helps the Art Center $2 per person/$20 minimum fee Visitor Comments Art Center visit to the Elevator continue its free admission policy and Meier building. • Sketching and note-taking is Pappajohn Sculpture 15th Street Walnut Street Grand Avenue outreach efforts. encouraged in the galleries, however Groups touring the Art Center and the and Suggestions Park, three miles east Handicap Accessible MLK Jr. Parkway MLK Jr. Mulberry Street There is a comment/guest book at the only with lead pencils, which are Pappajohn Sculpture Park on the same day on Grand Avenue to Drinking Fountain are $3 per person or a minimum fee of $30. Information Desk. You may also e-mail downtown Des Moines. Locust Cherry Street Coat Room available at the Information Desk. entirelyunexpected ON THE COVER Top: Original Eliel Saarinen building main entrance. Center: View of the west side of the Richard Meier building. Student Tours: Free us at [email protected] Bottom: John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park in downtown Des Moines with Mark di Suvero’s T8, 1985, in the foreground or call 515.277.4405. (detail of original photo). Top and bottom photos © Cameron Campbell Fleur Drive MLK Jr. Parkway 4700 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50312-2099 515.277.4405 www.desmoinesartcenter.org GRAND AVENUE GRAND AVENUE History and Architecture Sculpture on the Grounds 7 6 5 As noteworthy as the art collection is The experience of the Art Center In addition to the sculpture on the Eliel Saarinen 4 at the Des Moines Art Center, the Eliel Saarinen (American, born Finland actually begins outside the buildings grounds and at the Pappajohn Sculpture 45TH STR museum likewise boasts an outstanding 1873 –1950) first achieved international with art that responds to the Park, the Des Moines Art Center sites two collection of architecture. fame in his native Finland and built upon architecture and the landscape. sculptures on the Principal Riverwalk in downtown Des Moines by artists Sally Pettus that reputation after moving to the United 1 3 Main Entrance 2 EE The three architects who have collaborated States in 1923. It is ironic, however, that The Art Center is located within the and Joel Shapiro. They can be found at the T in the design of the museum, Eliel Saarinen, two of his most famous American projects 19th-century Greenwood Park and corner of 2nd and Grand Avenues, and on I. M. Pei, and Richard Meier, are among were never built: his acclaimed proposal in view of Grand Avenue, a major city the river side of City Hall at East 1st and N the greatest names in architecture of the for the Chicago Tribune building in 1922 thoroughfare.