Art of the North

The Art of the North galleries in the museum’s Rasmuson Wing present the museum’s art collection from the perspectives of American art and an international North.

Paintings, sculpture, photography, video and other media offer varied perceptions of the Northern landscape and wilderness through historical and contemporary depictions of both land and people.

These galleries offer a compelling narrative for the North. Presented are documentary works from expedition artists, along with Romantic landscapes by 19^th and 20^th century painters, and works by contemporary artists for whom the North is a place in transition, at risk and altered by humankind, with emphasis on Indigenous perspectives of land, language and landscape.

The Rasmuson Wing expands the amount of space dedicated to the museum’s collection from 3,000 to 25,000-square-feet. Combined, these spaces put on view approximately 200 works from the permanent collection.