From the Outside Looking In: Interior Spaces in Art January 17 –May 3, 2026

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Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret, Penthouse Bedroom, Des Moines, (detail) 1982, 14 x 11 inches, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, promised gift of the artist, L2004.020.
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Marvin D. Cone, It Happened Here, 1947-48, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, gift in memory of Thomas B. and Geraldine G. Powell, Anamosa, Iowa, 95.6.1.

From the Outside Looking In: Interior Spaces in Art 

January 17 –May 3, 2026

Art is often thought of as something to adorn an interior space, but how do we understand works of art that use an interior space as the subject?  Drawn from the permanent collection, this exhibition delves into the unique tension and charged atmosphere visible in works of art depicting interior spaces.  Artists construct intimate settings that can feel at once very familiar and entirely foreign.  Through these works, the viewer can begin to grasp the power of a depicted space.