April 6, 2019 – January 19, 2020 | Gallery 353 | Free Exhibition Pablo Picasso innovated in almost all art media, from painting and sculpture to book arts and printmaking. Mia recently acquired a rare group of prints that show his exploration into a novel printmaking technique: the reduction linocut
Longfellow Fund for Works on Paper, and gift of funds from Barbara S.
October 21, 2017 – July 1, 2018 | Gallery 353 | Free Exhibition George Morrison (1919–2000) was a renowned Anishinaabe modernist from Minnesota whose visionary work was inspired by the natural world, a profound sense of place, and Native American thought and culture. Morrison believed that nature, particularly the sky and water, held a spiritual vitality, a transcendent force that could be experienced through an aesthetic rooted in abstraction and surrealism. Emotive, personal, intuitive, and organic, Morrison’s approach was also deeply introspective, with Minnesota landscapes and the shoreline of Lake Superior serving as his principal subjects
Portage Anishinaabe), 1919-2000 Untitled, 1994 Colored pencil and ink on paper Gift
August 2, 2025 – April 5, 2026 | G226, 227 | Free Exhibition Yōzō Hamaguchi (1909–2000) was a master of color mezzotints, a technique that allowed printmakers to reproduce complex details of an artwork. Photography had rendered it obsolete by the 1900s, but Hamaguchi revived the technique after encountering it during a stay in Paris in the 1930s
Gift of Charles and Robyn Citrin. 2023.101.8 And More by More They Dream Their Sleep
February 9, 2019 – October 27, 2019 | G221, 222, 223 | Free Exhibition Birds and flowers are popular motifs in all types of Japanese art, but it was in the 1300s that Japanese painters began painting pictures of these subjects in ink alone. Painters took up the brush to create small vignettes of nature in shades of black on paper or silk, inspired by Chinese paintings then being imported to Japan
hanging scrolls; ink on paper, 15 1/16 × 22 3/4 in., Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift
November 26, 2016 – May 7, 2017 | The Winton Jones Print and Drawing Gallery – Gallery 344 | Free Exhibition Printmaker Félix Bracquemond (1833–1914) ruled the roost in mid-1800s France by reviving interest in etching, a technique made famous by Rembrandt. Bracquemond led the way with his printmaking excellence and innovation, attempting the century’s first color etching and adopting design ideas from Japanese woodcuts, which he is credited with discovering in a Paris shop
Ladd Collection, gift of Herschel V.
November 21, 2015 – April 2, 2017 | G326 and G327 | Free This installation situates one of the greatest authors of English literature, Jane Austen, in a unique period room setting. Taking up two of Mia’s well-loved English interiors—the Queen Anne room and the Georgian Drawing room—this display will discuss Austen’s habits as a reader and writer, recreate scenes from her novel Emma (celebrating its 200th birthday in 2015), and invite museum visitors to read works that Austen read, wrote, or inspired. This project is part of Living Rooms, an initiative to present Mia’s historic interiors and decorative arts collections in new ways. Generous support for this project provided by the MacFarlane Memorial Room Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation
content The Jane Austen Reading Room England, Queen Anne room, c. 1720–1730, Oak Gift
May 29, 2021 – May 29, 2022 | Gallery 226, 227, 237 | Free exhibition In 1964, a young David Hockney won First Prize at the International Exhibition of Drawings and Engravings in Lugano, Switzerland; at the same event, Amano Kazumi received an excellence award for prints of his abstract Moral series. Amano first studied under Munakata Shikō, Japan’s best-known contemporary print artist, who is famous for his roughly executed black-and-white designs
, Self-figure (Mirror), 1965, woodblock print; ink and color on embossed paper, Gift
September 26, 2015 – March 13, 2016 | U. S. Bank Gallery | Free Exhibition Seven Masters focuses on seven artists who played a significant role in the development of early 20th-century shin hanga, the new print, and are noteworthy representatives of this movement. Drawing from the collection of Ellen and Fred Wells at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, it features the spectacular beauty portraits of Hashiguchi Goyō (1880–1921), Itō Shinsui (1898–1972), Yamakawa Shūhō (1898–1944), and Torii Kotondo (1900–1976), the striking actors of Yamamura Toyonari/Kōka (1886–1942) and Natori Shunsen (1886–1960), as well as the evocative landscapes of Kawase Hasui (1883–1957)
Gift of Ellen and Fred Wells 2002.161.70 Seven Masters: 20th-Century Japanese Woodblock
December 18, 2021 – December 4, 2022 | Gallery 203 | Free Exhibition Western viewers are often curious about why Chinese artists write on their paintings and what the characters say. This exhibition answers such questions and explores the idea of integrating fine painting, poetry, and calligraphy, known as the “Three Perfections,” in a single artwork
(image), Ink on paper, Gift of Ruth and Bruce Dayton 95.54.2 The Three Perfections
September 20, 2025 – June 28, 2026 | Galleries 251, 252, and 253 | Free Exhibition Yoshida Hodaka (1926–1995) was born into a family of artists. He was the second son of Yoshida Hiroshi (1876–1950), a leading Western-style artist in Japan during the early 20th century
Gift of the Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture; formerly given to the Center
