Down by the River
The museum opens to the public August 6.
Sheila Kim-Jamet -- Interior Design, 7/22/2005 12:00:00 AM
It's taken three years. Now the Figge Art Museum (formerly the Davenport Museum of Art) will open in a new modern building on
The façade of the David Chipperfield–designed Figge Art Museum. ogy blazevic copyright figge art museum, 2005
the banks of the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa, on August 6.
Architect David Chipperfield, whose resume includes the Shore Club in Miami, stores for Dolce & Gabbana, and two other museums in Japan and England, designed the 100,000-square-foot volume. Its sleek monolithic skin of 
opaque, transparent, and translucent glass houses permanent and special galleries, five classrooms, an auditorium, a library, a winter
Stuart Davis’s oil on canvas Odol will be among works shown in the museum’s inaugural exhibition. copyright the museum of modern art/licensed by scala/art resource, ny, copyright estate of stuart davis/licensed by vaga, new york, ny
garden, and a restaurant. There's also an outdoor sculpture garden. The inaugural exhibition, "The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915– 1935," starts 
September 17. 563-326-7804; art-dma.org.
The Figge on the banks of the Mississippi River. ogy blazevic copyright figge art museum, 2005
A rendering of the site plan for the museum. studio toni yli-suvanto/copyright david chipperfield architects
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