The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art is located in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, and houses an extensive collection of visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas and Western American paintings and sculptures collected by businessman and philanthropist Harrison Eiteljorg (1903–1997). The museum houses one of the finest collections of Native contemporary art globally. The museum is currently part of Indianapolis’s White River State Park which also houses the neighboring Indiana State Museum, the Indianapolis Zoo, the White River Gardens, NCAA Hall of Champions, Victory Field, and Military Park. The museum offers free parking to its visitors in the White River State Park Garage.
The Gund Gallery has an appreciable collection of paintings and bronzes by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. It also has paintings by George Winter, Thomas Hill, Albert Bierstadt, Charles King, and Olaf Seltzer. In another room, there is an extensive collection of paintings by New Mexico-associated painters, such as Joseph Henry Sharp, William Victor Higgins, Ernest L. Blumenschein (“Penitentes”), John French Sloan, and Georgia O’Keeffe (“Taos Pueblo”). Bed Bug Exterminator Indianapolis
In June 2005, the museum opened an extensive expansion that doubled the museum’s public space by adding three new galleries, the Sky City Café, an education center, outdoor gardens, and event space. The new galleries include two galleries dedicated to the museum’s extensive contemporary art collection. The collection consists of T. C. Cannon, Kay WalkingStick, Andy Warhol, and many more. The other gallery added in the expansion is the Gund Gallery of Western Art. This gallery is dedicated to the 57-piece collection of traditional Western art donated to the museum by the George Gund Family.
The museum executes this charge in exciting and often surprising ways. The Eiteljorg collects and preserves high-quality Western and Native American art and cultural objects. Its collection includes artists such as T.C. Cannon, N. C. Wyeth, Andy Warhol, Georgia O’Keeffe, Allan Houser, Frederic Remington, Charles Russell, and Kay WalkingStick. The institution’s contemporary Native art collection has been ranked among the world’s best. The Eiteljorg Museum is the only museum of its kind in the Midwest and one of only two museums east of the Mississippi that showcase both Native American and Western art, culture, and history.
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