Civic Commission of Minneapolis (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1915
Description:
Title from cover. Includes a list of the members of the Civic Commission of Minneapolis, and a short organizational history of the commission. 12 pages.
Variant titles: Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibition of watercolors by Charles John Collins; Exhibition of water colors by Charles John Collins. Title from caption. Includes artist biographical information. Foreword signed C.J.C. Items lent by James McDiarmid, Fletcher Andrews, and C.H. Enderton, all of Winnipeg. 1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages).
Title from cover. Illustration of a stylized Thyrsus staff with ribbon printed on front cover. Penciled on front cover: "Feb. 1921". Reprint. Originally published: Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Volume X, number 3 (March 1921)), page 21. Article to accompany an exhibit held in various venues in the United States, including February 1921 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Lent by the artist, Mlle. Dubois of Brussels, Belgium, the tapestry, entitled "Vers l'Ideal ("Toward the Ideal"), is woven after a decorative panel by the Belgian painter Constant Montald and depicts the renaissance of art. 1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages).
The following sketch has been prepared on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts by Dr. Folwell, President of the society for the first five years of its existence.--Page 2. Includes a list of the signers of the society's Articles of Incorporation. 8 unnumbered pages.
Exhibition checklist from an exhibition sponsored by the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, parent and governing body of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Title from caption; penciled "10/04/11-11/5/11" on verso of leaf. Typescript (mimeographed). 1 sheet (1 unnumbered leaf).
Title from cover. Rectangular logo of the society with headless winged figure printed on front cover. At head of title: The Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts. ""October 8 to November 5, 1911, Minneapolis"". Includes artist biographical information and address. Catalog from an exhibition sponsored by the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, parent and governing body of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. 1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages).
Catalog from the first annual art exhibition organized by the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, parent and governing body of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Title from cover. Foreword signed E.C.G. Advertisement for Minneapolis School of Fine Arts on back cover. Includes artist biographical information and their addresses. Includes names of organizations and individuals that lent items to the exhibition. Includes a list of the society's current Board of Directors and of the committees for 1899-1900. 28 unnumbered pages.
Title from cover. "An address made at the celebration of the semi-centennial of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 10, 1920"--Page 2. Reprinted from the American magazine of art, August 1920, with the permission of the author and the American Federation of Arts by the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts"--Page 2. Illustration of a stylized Thyrsus staff with ribbon printed on front cover. 7 unnumbered pages.
Announcement with list of titles for an exhibition sponsored by the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, parent and governing body of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Title from cover. "The Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts announces a private view of an ... " Prices typewritten in with items. Prices typewritten in with items. 1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages).
Title from cover. Illustration of a stylized Thyrsus staff with ribbon printed on front cover. Penciled on front cover: "4/1-5/8/21". 1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages).
Exhibition catalog list from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Penned on front cover: "July-August 1916". Title from cover. Manuscript (typescript, original copy). 4 unnumbered pages.
Announcement with list of titles for an exhibition sponsored by the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, parent and governing body of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Title from cover. "The Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts announces a private view of an ... " Rectangular logo of the society with headless winged figure printed on front cover. Includes artist biographical information. 1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages).
Variant titles: Catalogue, Paintings by Birge and Alexander Harrison, Paintings by artists of Chicago and vicinity; Catalogue of the April exhibitions; Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity (19th: 1915: Chicago, Illinois). Title from cover. At head of title: "Catalogue". The second section is a selection from the nineteenth annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity held at the Chicago Art Institute in March, 1915. Advertisement for the Minneapolis School of Art on back cover. Item number 24, "Drifting" was lent by the St. Paul Institute. Includes artist biographical information for Birge and Alexander Harrison. 15 pages.
At head of title: "The Minneapolis Institute of Art". Advertisement for the Minneapolis School of Art at back. Includes artist biographical information. 16 unnumbered pages: illustrations, portrait.
Variant title: Samplers: a brief historical treatise on needlework samplers. Stylized illustration printed on front cover. Article to accompany an exhibit held at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, through April 15, 1921. "Through the kindness of Mrs. Emma B. Hodge of Chicago, her famous collection of samplers ... has been shown ... "--Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Volume X, number 4 (April, 1921)), page 25. Includes bibliographical references (page 6). 6 unnumbered pages.
Variant titles: Second International Watercolor Exhibition, April 15-May 21, 1922; Martin A. Ryerson Collection; Desmond FitzGerald Collection. Includes names of organizations and individuals that lent items to the exhibition. "Eighty-five water colors have been selected from the Second International Water Color Exhibition ... and are now on exhibition at the [Minneapolis] Institute [of Arts] ... shown in Gallery C10 on the second floor where they will remain until July 5."--Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Volume XI, number 6 (June 1922), page 47. "It is the purpose of the Art Institute of Chicago to do honor each year to one or two of the great masters of water color painting by a comprehensive showing of their works. In the present exhibition individual rooms have been given to the Martin A. Ryerson Collection of water colors by Winslow Homer, and to the Desmond FitzGerald Collection of water colors by Dodge Macknight."--Page 5. 32 unnumbered pages: illustrations.
Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910; Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925
Date Created:
1918?
Description:
Variant title: Catalogue of the exhibition of Homer-Sargent watercolors. Includes artist biographical information. Penciled on page 4: "Mar 2-Apr 2 1918". "The most important exhibition of the season is our exhibition during March of watercolors by ... Winslow Homer and John S. Sargent. ... These paintings have been lent by many private collectors notably Mrs. N.T. Pulsifer of Mountainville, New York, Mr. Martin A. Ryerson of Chicago, Mrs. Desmond Fitzgerald of Brookline, Massachusetts, Colonel Frank J. Hecker of Detroit, and also by public galleries including the Smithsonian Institution of Washington (Freer Collection), the Cincinnati Museum Association, the Brooklyn Museum and the Worcester Art Museum."--Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Volume VII, number 3 (March, 1918), page19-20. Typescript (mimeographed). 4 unnumbered pages.
Title from cover."'C'est la guerre' ... has been used to explain almost everything that has developed or failed to develop since 1914. In the present exhibition it explains why Alexandre Iacovleff, finding Europe closed to him after the Russian collapse in 1917, turned to the Far East for inspiration."--Page 3. Includes artist biographical information. Foreword signed: R.A.P. "This exhibition was shown in Paris with great success in 1920 and was brought to America by the Art Institute of Chicago."--Page 3. 8 unnumbered pages.
Industrial Exposition Association (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1893
Description:
Catalog from the eighth exhibition organized by the Industrial Exposition Association, Minneapolis. Title from cover. "Other local artists were included among the exhibitors at the Industrial Expositions, and in 1900 the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts began holding its own annual exhibitions of American artists works."--Conforti, Michael, editor. Minnesota 1900: art and life on the Upper Mississippi 1890-1915, 1994, page 98. Advertisements at back (pages 54-55, p. 4 of cover). Prices included with some items; some prices have penciled annotations. Includes names of organizations and individuals that lent items to the exhibition. MIA Library Archives copy missing front and back covers. 52 pages, 3 unnumbered pages: illustrations.
Night time view of the mansion lit up. Completed in 1908, the Swan J. Turnblad mansion was built in the French Chateauesque style. The house became the American Swedish Institute in 1929.