2.19.2009

Noble Dreams and Simple Pleasures at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts - February 21 through May 3


George Bellows, Upper Broadway, 1907

Robert Scott Duncanson, Still Life with Fruit and Nuts, 1848

Thomas Chambers, The Shipwreck, 1850


Ammi Phillips, Portrait of Catharina Van Keuren, 1825


Maurice Prendergast, Elegant Woman in Blue Dress, 1893-94

Place: Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Event: Noble Dreams and Simple Pleasures: American Masterworks from Minnesota Collections

When: February 22 - May 3, 09

Info: Preview more than 140 masterworks by American artists. "Paintings by Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, along with work by Minnesota artists such as N. R. Brewer and Alex Fournier, reflect the grand ambitions and daily pleasures of a nation coming into its own. At the same time, these portraits, landscapes, moody meditations, and works on modernism’s brink shed new light on the personal passions of Minnesota collectors."

MIA
Noble Dreams and Simple Pleasures

No comments:

Post a Comment