A Walker Art Center exhibition during the institution's WPA (Works Progress Administration and Work Projects Administration) period, 1941. From the National Archives and Records Administration; public domain.

A children’s art class at the Walker Art Center, then a community art center operated by the Federal Art Project (1941). From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); public domain.

A Federal Art Project exhibition at the Walker Art Center, ca. 1940.

Art class at the Walker Art Center, 1940. The Federal Art Project held art classes for all ages at the Walker in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

A postcard depicts the “new” Walker Art Museum, which opened in 1927 on Lowry Hill in Minneapolis.

T. B. Walker standing on the grand stairway inside the Walker Art Gallery (later called the Walker Art Center), ca. 1925.

T. B. Walker, ca. 1915.

Interior view of the Walker Art Gallery (later called the Walker Art Center) showing paintings exhibited in the salon style, ca. 1890.

An exterior view of the Walker Art Center addition designed by Herzog & de Meuron in 2005. Photograph by Flickr user Mark B. Schlemmer, May 3, 2012. CC BY 2.0