Facility & Resources
Allen Memorial Art Building
Located at: Allen Memorial Art Building87 North Main St., Oberlin, OH 44074-1097
The Department of Art occupies two buildings adjacent to the Allen Memorial Art Museum. In the 1937 wing (designed by founding museum director Clarence Ward) are the Fisher Hall student art gallery, art history classrooms, painting and silkscreen studios, and the Visual Resources Collection. Another wing, designed by Robert Venturi as part of a 1976 expansion, houses an extensive art library, seminar room, and studios for photography, digital media, drawing, and sculpture.
Allen Memorial Art Museum
Located at: Allen Memorial Art Museum87 North Main St., Oberlin, OH 44074-1097
Located at: Allen Memorial Art Building
87 North Main St., Oberlin, OH 44074-1097
Museum collections here rank Oberlin within the top five college-based art museums in the United States. Entering the museum's main rotunda, you will see paintings by Cezanne, Modigliani, Picasso, and many other 20th-century masters. With more than 12,000 objects, the museum provides an overview of the history of art from a variety of cultures. Particularly strong are its holdings of European and American paintings and sculpture from the 15th century to today.
Clarence Ward Art Library
Located at: Allen Memorial Art Building87 North Main St., Oberlin, OH 44074-1097
A visual feast for those who love art and the creative process, the library has more than 100,000 books, exhibition catalogs, and bound periodicals, as well as about 250 journals. The collection includes architecture, painting, sculpture, prints and drawings, new media, photography, and the decorative arts. Materials on anthropology, archeology, and landscape architecture may also be found here. The library is located on the top floor of the Allen Art Building. The library is named after Clarence Ward, director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum from 1917 to 1948.
Ellen Johnson Gallery
Located at: Allen Memorial Art Building87 North Main St., Oberlin, OH 44074-1097
Exposure to great works of art is an essential aspect of a liberal arts education. The museum has an active schedule of changing exhibitions from its permanent collection and on loan from other important museums. Through May 2009, the Ellen Johnson Gallery features works from the museum’s modern and contemporary collections, ranging from Claude Monet’s Wisteria to a recently acquired sculpture by Tim Hawkinson.
See the AMAM’s current exhibitions.
Weltzheimer/Johnson House
Located at: Weltzheimer-Johnson House (Frank Lloyd Wright House)534 Morgan St., Oberlin, OH 44074-1097
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948, the Weltzheimer/Johnson House is the first Usonian house in Ohio. Usonian refers to a group of about 50 Wright homes designed for middle-class Americans following World War II - typically small, single-story dwellings without garages, L-shaped to open into the landscape, and environmentally conscious with flat roofs and large cantilevered overhangs for passive solar heating and cooling, naturally lit clerestory windows, and radiant floor heating.
