Phoenix Art Museum
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Phoenix Art Museum is an art museum located in Phoenix, Arizona. The museum was founded in 1936 as the Phoenix Art Center, a part the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project. It later evolved into the Phoenix Fine Arts Association, before being renamed the Phoenix Art Museum. Philip Campbell Curtis was the founding director. The museum moved to its present location in 1959. The Collection includes 17,000 works of art that span the centuries and the globe. Its emphasis is on American, Asian, European, Latin American, modern and contemporary, and Western American art, and fashion design.
The Phoenix Art Museum has been designated as a Phoenix Point of Pride<ref>Phoenix Points of Pride. Retrieved on October 18, 2006.</ref>.
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- Phoenix Art Museum website
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