El Paso Museum of Art

The El Paso Museum of Art is a Texas art museum located in El Paso.

The section is primarily comprised of works from the Samuel Henry Kress collection, with a focus on Italian and Spanish paintings and sculptures (Canaletto, Jusepe de Ribera, Lorenzo Lotto, Murillo, Bernardo Strozzi, Zurbaran), as well as Flemish (Antoon Van Dyck).

Art from Mexico

The collection, which includes paintings, pottery, and devotional objects, reflects the art of the region during the Spanish occupation.

Drawing in the Galleries

Challenge yourself or your students to look at what you saw. Bring your own pencil and sketchbook; EPMA will supply the gallery materials.

HISTORY

The El Paso Museum of Art was founded in 1959 in response to a need to house a significant donation of European Baroque and Renaissance works to the City of El Paso by the Samuel Kress Foundation. Botticelli, Canaletto, van Dyck, Zurbarán, and Artemisia Gentileschi, among other Gothic, Baroque, and Renaissance masters, are represented in this collection. This seed collection grew to include over 7000 works over time. EPMA relocated to its current location in the heart of El Paso's Downtown Arts District in 1998, less than a mile from the Juárez Bridge.