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Crate 1 of 2: Paintings & Sculpture from the Collection
June 13 - August 28, 2008

This exhibition highlights masterworks from the MMAA’s permanent collection. These selections encompass the breadth and stylistic diversity of American art in the Museum’s holdings and bring to light the strengths of nationally known masters and locally renowned talents.

 
With roots dating back to the 1890s, the MMAA is one of the oldest visual arts institutions in the region. MMAA began as an art school founded by several local artists and community leaders. The organization was founded as The Saint Paul School of Art in 1926, and only began as a collecting institution in the 1940s. With over 3500 objects in the collection at present, this exhibition showcases both the first American painting and sculpture accessioned into the collection, as well as over 80 other paintings and sculptures accessioned throughout the history of the museum.


Mike Lynch
Elevator – 29th and Harriet, 1988, oil on linen
Collection Minnesota Museum of American Art


Cameron Booth
Indian Camp, Leach Lake Indian Reservation, 1923, oil on linen
Collection Minnesota Museum of American Art


Thomas Hart Benton
Shocking Corn, 1945, oil on canvas
Collection Minnesota Museum of American Art


Paul Manship
Prometheus, 1933, gilt bronze on marble base
Collection Minnesota Museum of American Art



 
Artists included in the exhibition (partial list)

Paintings by:

Thomas Hart Benton
Cameron Booth
Nicholas Brewer
Henry Carling
William Merritt Chase
Arthur B. Davies
Alexis J. Fournier
William Glackens
Childe Hassam
Clement Haupers
Robert Henri
James Jerome Hill
Elsa Jemne
Paul Kramer
Ernest Lawson
Mac LeSueur
Luigi Lucioni
George Luks
Mike Lynch
Clara Mairs
Reginald Marsh
Kenneth Hayes Miller
Joan Mitchell
George Morrison
B.J.O. Nordfeldt
Charles Wilson Peale
Walter Quirt
John Sloan
Moses Soyer
Phyllis Wiener
Grant Wood

 

Sculpture by:

Klaus Ihlenfeld
Luise Kaish
Jacques Lipchitz
Paul Manship
George Morrison
Louise Nevelson
Evelyn Raymond
George Rickey
John Rood
William Zorach