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To find out more about our latest acquisition, read the following article by David Mackie, University of Cambridge.

William Johnstone
Carboniferous
Oil on canvas, 54 x 96 in (137.1 x 243.8cm)
Exhibited: London, Haywar...

The Figge recently installed The Offer of Education, a newly restored mural by George Rickey. The mural was painted by Rickey while he was teaching at Knox College in Ilinois in 1940-41. After hanging for a number years on campus, the mural was removed in 1960 and placed in storage. Find...

The Figge Art Museum presents a symposium on Mercedes Matter (1913-2001), Abstract Expressionist artist and founder of the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, from 2-4 pm Saturday, October 2.

An intra-state alliance will soon bring the University of Iowa Museum of Art’s (UIMA) collection back to Iowa.

The Figge Art Museum, Iowa’s oldest art museum, has offered the UIMA significant space for display and st...