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MIA: Prints and Drawings (Bot)
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Sharing artworks from the Minneapolis Institute of Art's Prints and Drawings department. Not associated with the Minneapolis Art Institute.
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The Corn Field https://collections.artsmia.org/art/56682/
The Corn Field
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Cupids Playing near a Nymph https://collections.artsmia.org/art/102658/
abstracted, blurry image in brown, blue and white of standing woman with three small figures (putti?)
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Tennis Umbrella https://collections.artsmia.org/art/30843/
"Tennis Umbrella" by Ben Shahn features a vividly colored umbrella hovering over a simplistic tennis court, rendered with a combination of abstract lines and earthy greens. Known for his socially conscious works, Shahn often blended graphic design with fine art to convey both simplicity and deeper narratives.
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Young Girls Anger-Suppression Class https://collections.artsmia.org/art/95330/
five girls, all wearing dresses, standing in front of a board with the following words: "apologize / cry / sulk / make busy / disappear / laugh / cut"; yellow and black
November 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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The Pietà https://collections.artsmia.org/art/9235/
The Pietà
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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The Forge of the Heart https://collections.artsmia.org/art/48331/
This dazzling allegory is no bigger than a bookplate, which evidently it was. Its presumed owner was Willibald Pirckheimer, a prominent Nuremberg humanist and scholar (and Albrecht Dürer's best friend). Here Tribulation beats an anvil, Envy casts a disdainful glance, Hope looks up to see soothing drops fall on the flaming heart, and Tolerance rests patiently below. The iconography suggests that patience in the face of hardship brings grace, a fitting sentiment considering Pirckheimer was ill when the engraving was completed and died the following year.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Polacaca https://collections.artsmia.org/art/120968/
two seated women, wearing light blue and pink dresses, and a standing child in a pink dress under a squat tree with other trees in background; rolling landscape
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Still Life with Grapes and a Pomegranate https://collections.artsmia.org/art/4232/
Purchased from the 1991 Prints and Drawings Print Sale and Exhibition
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Elin and Maria https://collections.artsmia.org/art/90882/
figure wrapped in a white sheet, lying on a wood floor; back, backside and tail of a small dog visible, with front end nestled under figure's arm
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Windmill Hill (No.1) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/47293/
Windmill Hill (No.1)
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Head of a Woman https://collections.artsmia.org/art/9027/
Head of a Woman
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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The Falcon https://collections.artsmia.org/art/111510/
man seated at table holding hand of woman; woman half seated; cat on chair; dog at woman's feet; fruit bowl and feathers(?) on table
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Frontispiece from Atlas https://collections.artsmia.org/art/76025/
Frontispiece from Atlas
November 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Double Standard https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8703/
In 1962 Ruscha produced a book called Twentysix Gasoline Stations, a collection of deadpan documentary photographs he made of gas stations along Route 66 between Los Angeles and his hometown of Oklahoma City. Later he produced a painting and several screenprints based on the photographs. Like many of Ruscha's works, Double Standard has a punning title. The Standard sign urges you to buy your gas here, but it has other connotations--"the model against which others should be measured," for example, and "mediocre or commonplace." The title Double Standard—deriving from the crossed signs—suggests unfairness, especially in judging male and female behavior.
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Leaf from an Antiphonary https://collections.artsmia.org/art/2234/
Recto has elaborate historiated initial of God enthroned, surrounded by animals, grotesques and female figures; the heading, 'AD LAUDES' is also illuminated Even after printed books were common, handwritten illuminated manuscripts continued to be produced as luxury editions in the 16th and 17th centuries. This antiphonal page exemplifies the conflation of persistent medieval traditions and Renaissance secular elements. It is signed and dated on the lower frame of the miniature: 1645 Fra Bonaventura a Montepulciano fecit. Montepulciano, a provincial town near Siena, was a center of humanistic learning in the 16th century. In the historiated initial, the enthroned God the Father is encircled by a frame composed of caryatids, putti and floral festoons—all typical High Renaissance motifs. A host of symbolic animals portray the human conflict between vice and virtue, sin and redemption. The ox is a symbol of patience and strength, while the pelican represents Christ's sacrifice on the Cross and thus the sacrament of Eucharist. The ape symbolizes malice and cunning and the cat, laziness and lust, whereas the dog signifies watchfulness and fidelity. The words AD LAUDES in the cartouche at the top of the page indicate that it begins the service for lauds (about 5:00 a.m.). The words are taken from psalm 92, as noted by a later hand in the upper right-hand corner.
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The First Building Project According to What Plan https://collections.artsmia.org/art/59182/
Predominantly black abstraction with red markings; a house or building with a pitched roof at center
November 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Siena https://collections.artsmia.org/art/46737/
Siena
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Volks Cafe-Haus https://collections.artsmia.org/art/38029/
Volks Cafe-Haus
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Temple of Giano https://collections.artsmia.org/art/55257/
Temple of Giano
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Landscapes https://collections.artsmia.org/art/130123/
black pigment on cream paper; thick black Y-shaped lines to right side of center form tree trunk; thick black lines form tree trunks in center and background; black abstract shapes along bottom, left and right sides suggest foliage; cream spaces in middle between trees; paper has rough edges
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Fold-Out https://collections.artsmia.org/art/59039/
Sculptural abstraction featuring a large red elliptical object with an orange center surrounded by black spiraling lines. Print with hand-drawn additions.
November 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Self-Portrait, Facing Right https://collections.artsmia.org/art/121436/
3/4 view of male figure with large eyes and short hair gazing toward viewer; man is seated next to a worktable in a darkened room, holding a copper plate; screen leaning on table, and a container of printmaking tools is nearby
November 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Grammar (The Arts and Sciences) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/50626/
Grammar (The Arts and Sciences)
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Freedom, A Fable: A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times https://collections.artsmia.org/art/6128/
Pop-up silhouette book; binding: maroon buckram covers Kara Walker's cut-paper silhouette images, a technique quite popular in the 19th century for both portraiture and narrative illustrations, are bridges between the slavery folklore of the Antebellum South and the identity and gender issues that today concern modern African American women in particular.
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Beside the Sea https://collections.artsmia.org/art/5139/
Storm cloud and rain over water as seen from a beach In 1869, Degas made a series of pastel drawings near Houlgate, a small seaside resort town in Normandy. Though extremely spare in conception, many of the drawings include detail sufficient to determine the precise locations where Degas worked. In this regard, Beside the Sea is particularly challenging for it is apparently devoid of specifically identifiable landmarks. Instead of trees, rocks, and the other usual vocabulary of landscape, Degas offers a scattering of barely indicated beach walkers to suggest scale and perspective. Nearly reduced to a series of horizontal striations, the radical simplicity of the drawing anticipates the tonal compositions of artists such as Whistler, Buhot, and Pennell.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM