About the Collection
The Latin American Collection encompasses more than 1,000 works of art from the mid-17th century to today, spanning a considerable geographic range, including Mexico, Central America, the Carribean, and South America. It features Spanish Colonial artworks created in the territories of the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru, including religious paintings, portraits, silverwork, furniture, and decorative arts, of which the earliest dates to 1665. These historical objects are enriched by remarkable works by early- and mid-20th-century Mexican painters and printmakers such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, José Guadalupe Posada, Alfredo Ramos Martínez, José Chávez Morado, Arnold Belkin, Carlos Orozco Romero, and Rufino Tamayo. Artists of our time provide a more contemporary perspective from diverse Latin American regions, including Jesús Rafael Soto, Roberto Matta, José Bedia, Toirac, Jac Leirner, Rivane Neuenschwander, Liliana Porter, Miguel Angel Ríos, Nahum B. Zenil, Teresa Margolles, and Waltercio Caldas, among others.
American and Western American
The American and Western American collections feature art dating from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. Through the objects on view, we can trace the development and evolution of American artistic traditions through the early interest in portraiture to the prominence of landscape painting, and beyond.
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Contemporary
The contemporary art collection features cutting-edge contemporary works by living artists, from the mid-20th century to today. Representing works by artists working all over the world, the collection features diverse perspectives that illuminate the contemporary human experience.
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Fashion Design
The fashion design collection features nearly 6,000 objects of couture, accessories, and ephemera. Spanning nearly five hundred years, from the historical to the ultra-contemporary, the fashion design collection is one of the most unique of its kind in the world.
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Latin American
The Latin American art collection features more than 1,000 works from across North, Central and South America. From Spanish Colonial to contemporary works by living artists, the collection explores artistic traditions that are especially meaningful to our shared experience in a border region.
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Photography
Through a landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum presents three annual exhibitions of photography to its community, drawn from the CCP’s unparalleled collection of historical and contemporary photography.
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Thorne Rooms
The Thorne Rooms provide a glimpse into replications of rooms found in America and Europe, at an exacting 1:12 scale. A beloved favorite of visitors of all ages, they have been painstakingly preserved for nearly a century.
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