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Drawing from the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, along with promised gifts
Kivivirta, Finnish, born 1959, Spoon Tile, 2012, slip cast stoneware, Promised Gift
figures of the zodiac Earthenware with mineral pigments Minneapolis Institute of Art Gift
figures of the zodiac Earthenware with mineral pigments Minneapolis Institute of Art Gift
November 27, 2024 – July 20, 2025 | 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
Hamaguchi Yōzō (Japanese, 1909-2000), Twenty-Two Cherries (detail), color mezzotint, Gift
February 17, 2018 – October 28, 2018 | The Star Tribune Foundation Atrium, Gallery 180 | Free Exhibition Mia celebrates the pleasure of pure, virtuosic draftsmanship with the first museum show of Minnesota artists and twin brothers Bly and Rowan Pope. They have worked side by side their entire lives
left: Rowan Pope American, born 1980 „A Hunger Artist,“ 2013 Graphite on paper Gift
Rooster weathervane, about 1880s Copper and pigment Minneapolis Institute of Art Gift
July 16, 2020 – March 21, 2021 | The Winton Jones Gallery for Prints and Drawings (Gallery 344) | Free Exhibition A main thread in the history of art is the centuries-long conversation between artists. Many paid attention to what others had done or were doing and then responded— sometimes obviously, sometimes not; sometimes approvingly, sometimes not
Ladd Collection, gift of Herschel V.
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
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
