The American Museum of Western Art provides access to one of the world’s premier collections of Western art in one of the most unique settings in the country to ultimately enhance appreciation for and understanding of both Western art and American Western history locally, nationally and internationally.
The Museum was founded in 2010 as the permanent home for The Anschutz Collection, a formerly private collection of paintings that surveys the art of the American West from the early 19th century to the present.
With a collection that spans nearly two centuries of art history, the Museum’s holdings include examples of early American expeditionary painting, Hudson River School and Rocky Mountain School landscapes, 19th century American narrative painting, early American modernism, Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction, American Regionalism, “New Deal Art”, and even Abstract Expressionism.
