Fine American art in Wichita, Kansas
The Wichita Art Museum is a wonderful little art museum in Wichita Kansas that specializes in the cream of the crop of American art. The highlights of the collection are Charles Russel, a turn-of-the-century American artists whose paintings of the American West came to symbolize an ideal, and Edward Hopper, the 20th-century American painter most well-known for his classic 1942 painting Nighthawks.
The museum also has a small but well-curated collection of Native American and Pre-Colombian art that’s worth seeing. The museum also regularly hosts temporary exhibits ranging from subjects like contemporary Native American art to works from as far away as Australia and prestigious traveling exhibits like the May Cassatt and the American Impressionists. Another obvious highlight is the dazzling glass sculpture by contemporary artist Dale Chihuly that adorns the lobby area.