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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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Wind and Rain https://collections.artsmia.org/art/42715/
Wind and Rain
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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The Waterworks, Philadelphia https://collections.artsmia.org/art/52128/
The Waterworks, Philadelphia
November 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Rabble https://collections.artsmia.org/art/57925/
Plate 28
November 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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The Turkey Pasture https://collections.artsmia.org/art/53443/
The Turkey Pasture
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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The Husband Lost at Sea https://collections.artsmia.org/art/59163/
Multiple scene print; L PANEL: black silhouette of a 2-masted boat against a peach, ochre, red and purple sky; a bright yellow sun, UR, and black orbits throughout; red, yellow and brown water: R PANEL: a brown seabed against a black, scribbled in background; BOTTOM PANEL: a blue and black seabed with foreign objects (presumably vestiges of a boat) lodged in the sand
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Hercules Abducting Iole, From the Labors of Hercules https://collections.artsmia.org/art/124319/
The legendary strongman Hercules was born to the god Zeus and a mortal named Alcmena. This union so incensed Zeus’s wife Hera that she made life almost unbearable for the hero. Her ire resulted in him undertaking a series of tasks, known as the Twelve Labors of Hercules. Sebald Beham challenged his audience’s knowledge of the classical text, engraving three actual labors and nine scenes of Hercules’ exploits before and after his labors. King Eurytus made the mistake of insulting Hercules. In revenge, Hercules attacks the kingdom and captures Princess Iole, whom he sends to Deianeira.
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Home https://collections.artsmia.org/art/132015/
darkened hill with house at top of the hill; cluster of resting sheep in center left; winding roads lead up to hill to house; group of shadowed trees at bottom of image Published in London just after World War I (1914–18), this print was so popular that Hall Thorpe later made a smaller, cheaper version for broad distribution. He learned woodcutting as a newspaper illustrator in Sydney, Australia, in the 1890s, when articles were still illustrated with wood engravings. That job would have taught him to translate scenes into patterns of light and dark, a skill apparent in his trees.
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Deadlock https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8838/
Edward August Landon was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1911 where he eventually attended the Hartford Art School. Landon set out for New York City in the late 1920s to become an artist and focus on painting. By the latter 1930s, as a student of the Art Student League, he began experimenting with silkscreen. He was so enamored with the technique he gave up his paintbrushes and canvases in favor of screenprinting.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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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