Founded in Corpus Christi in 1936 as the Centennial Museum, the institution became the Art Museum of South Texas in 1945 under the South Texas Art League and the Corpus Christi Guild. After outgrowing its earlier quarters, it opened a new main building designed by Philip Johnson in 1972, a project strongly supported by Patsy and Edwin Singer and often praised as one of Johnson’s finest small public works and an early U.S. example of postmodern architecture. Affiliated with Texas A&M University Corpus Christi in 1995, it later expanded with a Ricardo Legorreta-designed wing that opened in 2006. Today it holds more than 2,022 works focused on art of the Americas, especially Texas.

Corpus Christi, Texas · USA