The Wichita Falls Museum of Art has an outstanding collection of more than 3,000 artworks. The Permanent Art Collection focuses on American art of the past and present. A majority of the artwork in the collection is works on paper including original lithographs, etchings, mezzotints, drawings, watercolors, pastels, and photography. The collection also includes paintings and sculptures. The museum’s permanent collection includes artworks on paper by American artists ranging from a 1677 print by John Foster to major works by nineteenth and twentieth-century masters Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Leonard Baskin, Andy Warhol, Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, John Sloan, and many other contemporary artists. To learn more about the museum and the current exhibitions, call 940.397.8900 or visit wfma.msutexas.edu.

The Heritage of Print Collection, Nolan A. Moore III’s rare printing treasury, is a beautifully displayed and fascinating walk through history. Beginning with replicas of cave art, a Sumerian cuneiform tablet and hieroglyphic writings, the collection documents the record of the human race through written communication. Some highlights of the collection include a wooden printing press from the early 1800s, a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, an example of an authentic, Vatican-approved papal indulgence, surviving manuscripts of Shakespeare’s Second Folios, an original text of the 1611 King James Bible, and a beautiful edition of the hand-crafted Kelmscott Chaucer.

Moore made his life’s passion the collecting of these rare and remarkable pieces from all over the world in order to share them with others and endow posterity with fascinating artifacts of how communication changed and shaped the course of history. The collection is located on the second floor of Moffett Library. Call 940.397.4173 for an appointment.