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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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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
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The Coliseum from Villiers Street https://collections.artsmia.org/art/51664/
The Coliseum from Villiers Street
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Fleurs (Flowers) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/56125/
Ernest-Ange Duez's almost botanical detailing signifies the burgeoning field of plant science that was developing alongside Art Nouveau. In Paris, public greenhouses multiplied after 1850, enabling artists to study blooms all year long.
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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The Advance Guard of the Grand Army of the United States Crossing the Long Bridge Over the Potomac at 2 A.M. on May 24, 1861 https://collections.artsmia.org/art/58034/
This artwork, attributed to Winslow Homer, depicts the Union Army making its strategic crossing over the Long Bridge at night, against the backdrop of the luminous moon in May 1861. It captures a pivotal moment early in the Civil War, combining Homer's keen eye for detail with the historical significance of the Union's movement into Virginia.
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Drapery Study https://collections.artsmia.org/art/114322/
study of crumpled cloth (napkin?) on lightly striped surface (tablecloth?)
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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The Piazza in Covent Garden, London https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8858/
The Piazza in Covent Garden, London
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Carleton - Bay of Fundy https://collections.artsmia.org/art/51146/
no. 63 on print
November 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Untitled [soldier] https://collections.artsmia.org/art/112783/
standing soldier with thick moustache, wearing a helmet, gloves with gauntlets, and very tall riding boots with spurs, resting his PL hand on his sword; small shoe in LRC
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Bacchanale https://collections.artsmia.org/art/43411/
Bacchanale
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Pink Cartons https://collections.artsmia.org/art/129438/
abstract colorful image in white, pink, orange, brown, yellow and green with black outlines; mostly blocky and ovoid forms; yellow horizontal bar at top with orange elements in top corners; multicolored (predominately pink and white) dimensional form at center Robert Barber is a painter and sculptor who loves the physical act of creation and is fascinated by the relationship between two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects. He constructs his sculptures by using pieces of scavenged cardboard. In Pink Cartons, the die-cut shapes and folded forms of cardboard boxes are readily apparent. It examines spaces, voids, and planes, all on a flat surface. Though sculptural in its analysis, the drawing’s making is painterly, with layered and blended colors. A Minneapolis native, Barber earned his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota in 1952. A prolific painter and sculptor, it would be six decades before he received significant public recognition. Then, at the age of 93, in 2015, the Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art organized a major retrospective of his career. He soon had a series of gallery exhibitions in New York, and this drawing was selected by a jury of famous artists as a gift to Mia.
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Chateau de Bouclan https://collections.artsmia.org/art/9586/
Chateau de Bouclan
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Lady Mildmay and Child https://collections.artsmia.org/art/55070/
Lady Mildmay and Child
November 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Errand Girls https://collections.artsmia.org/art/59363/
Errand Girls
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Jim Long https://collections.artsmia.org/art/15916/
three quarter drawing of an old man who is seated facing the spectator.
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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On the Beach https://collections.artsmia.org/art/57984/
Mounted in same mat as P.82.40.139
November 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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El Obrero de Mina de Plata https://collections.artsmia.org/art/45508/
Miners were a favorite subject for Francisco Mora. Born just a generation after Mexico's revered muralist triumvirate (Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros), Mora also believed art could have social importance. He paid tribute to his country's working poor, sketching their angular figures and weary faces with disarming directness. For 56 years he was married to American artist Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), whom he met at the Taller de Gráfica Popular (People's Graphics Workshop) in Mexico City.
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds https://collections.artsmia.org/art/9511/
Four young male shepherds, one asleep; a sleeping dog in foreground, two cows to left; angel is fairly distant in the sky, flying through a break in the clouds
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Thomas Vireloque https://collections.artsmia.org/art/46260/
Thomas Vireloque
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Hercules Feeding Diomedes to His Mares https://collections.artsmia.org/art/120477/
man standing along L side holding wrists of a man lying on his back with a horse biting his ankle As part of his Twelve Labors, the mythological Greek hero Hercules had to seize the four wild, flesh-eating mares belonging to the warrior Diomedes. While wrestling Diomedes, Hercules managed to throw him to the mares, who then devoured their master. Delacroix made several studies of this subject, including a rough oil sketch now in Copenhagen.
November 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Children Playing https://collections.artsmia.org/art/19495/
Children Playing
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM