Dallas Museum of Art

About

Founded in 1903 as the Dallas Art Association, this museum spent its early years in a corner of the public library and later at Fair Park before moving, in January 1984, into its present building in the Arts District. Designed by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes and built with a 1979 city bond and private donations, the 159,000-square-foot exhibition space now holds some 24,000 works spanning from 3000 BC to the present. Deep within the galleries hangs Frederic Edwin Church's The Icebergs, painted in 1861. Once lost from view, it reclaimed the title of a 'lost masterpiece' when it was donated to the museum in 1979. Beside it, Monet's Water Lilies, Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat, and Courbet's fox in the snow follow one after another, each holding the visitor's step a little longer.