In 1997, the museum was expanded again to include larger administrative offices, storage, a sculpture court and educational studios.

[9] By 1955, the small collection included works from the artists Helen Aupperle, Reeves Ulher, Olaf Moller, Robert Phillip, Alexis J. Fournier, W. Blair, W.E.

Buhk, William Silva, LeConte Stewart, Luigi Kasimir, Warren Squires, Peter Hurd, Walt Disney, and Dorothy Andrews.

Adding to other gifts and donations earlier that year, it included Halcyon Days by Flavin Gabral, House for Rent and Precarious Position by Michael Frary, Sierra Grande by Richard Haines, Duet by Dan Lutz and From Hilltop by Eric Sloane.

Joseph Stewart, the then director of the Boise Gallery of Art, remarked of the sculpture: An ordinary 17-inch portable television is no more or less significant than other products of 20th century technology.

In muting the television set, and in making it so heavy that two men can hardly lift it, Kienholz has snapped us from the spell of the networks.

"[16] The museum's collecting mission focuses on 20th century realism and ceramics from American, Northwest and Idaho artists.

These works, most created in the 1980s and early 1990s, were selected to complement the collection of American realism previously donated by Sun Valley art collector Glenn C.