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Our Treasures: Highlights from the Minnesota Museum of American Art features some of the most outstanding artworks in this little known collection based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. With works from the nineteenth century to the present, the book provides scholarly essays on each artwork, plus an essay on the development of this intriguing art collection and decades-old Saint Paul institution. Works by American artists like Paul Manship, George Morrison, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Joan Mitchell, Ed Ruscha, and others are discussed by a variety of curators and art historians. Edited by Minnesota Museum of American Art executive director Dr. Kristin Makholm, the book showcases a variety of media from paintings, drawings, and sculpture to the museum's great collection of mid-century studio craft.
The work of Chippewa artist George Morrison (1919–2000) has enjoyed widespread critical acclaim. His paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures have been displayed in numerous public and private exhibitions, and he is one of Minnesota’s most cherished artists. Yet because Morrison’s artwork typically does not include overt references to his Indian heritage, it has stirred debate about what it means to be a Native American artist. This stunning catalogue, featuring 130 color and black-and-white images, showcases Morrison’s work across a spectrum of genres and media, while also exploring the artist’s identity as a modernist within the broader context of twentieth-century American an...
Catalog of an exhibition of the work of George Morrison, an American landscape painter and sculptor.
"Gordon Parks's spectacular rise from poverty, personal hardships, and outright racism is astounding and inspiring." --from the foreword by Wing Young Huie
This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, organized by Lynn Lukkas and Howard Oransky for the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota.
A retrospective and creatively collaborative review of this international feminist conceptual artist Young women victims of a garment factory fire in New York in 1911. An autobiographical progression through stages of womanhood. American veterans killed in Iraq. A giant trough filled with books and surrounded by an urban cornfield. The subjects of Harriet Bart's art are as varied as the media and genres in which she works--sculpture, installation, textiles, painting, drawing, artist's books. Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection is a comprehensive look at the prolific and dynamic career of this international feminist conceptual artist. A founder of the Women's Art Registry ...
The MPLSART Sketchbook Project is a unique survey of the Twin Cities visual arts community during a most challenging year. 70 local artists contributed 120 pages of original work to a series of five traveling sketchbooks. These sketchbooks were collected into a limited edition book celebrating the project.The collected edition of the MPLSART Sketchbook project featuring original works by 70 Twin Cities artists created for five traveling sketchbooks during 2021.