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.
Catalog from an exhibition sponsored by the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, parent and governing body of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The exhibit included works by members of the Artists' League of Minneapolis. Title from cover. 1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages).
Variant Title: Annual exhibition by the Alumni Association of the Minneapolis School of Art. Title from cover. At head of title: "Minneapolis Institute of Art". Penciled on front cover: "Prices". Prices penciled in for some items. Stylized illustration printed on front cover. 1 folded sheet (6 unnumbered pages).
Variant titles: Official catalogue, the Swedish art exhibition; Exhibition of contemporary Swedish art, 1916; Swedish exhibition, 1916. At head of title: Official catalogue. "Under the auspices of the Brooklyn Museum, the Copley Society of Boston, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Carnegie Institute--Pittsburgh, the Detroit Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the City Art Museum--St. Louis, the John Herron Art Institute--Indianapolis, the Toledo Museum of Art"--Page 5. The exhibition included paintings, prints, and sculpture of contemporary Swedish artists. "Cover by Brynjulf Strandenaes after design by Gunnar Hallstro?m"--Title page verso. Swedish three-crowns coat of arms printed on back cover. Includes indexes. 72 pages: illustrations, portraits.
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.
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.
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 title: Past and future. Title from cover. Penciled on front cover: "1906?". Rectangular logo of the society with intertwined letters printed on cover in red and brown. "The Society of Fine Arts has maintained a continuous and helpful growth since its organization twenty-four years ago ... "--Page 2. The Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts (incorporated 1883 and existing to the present), is the parent and governing body for the Minneapolis Institute of Art (opening in 1915 and existing to the present). Prior to 1915, collections were housed and exhibitions hosted at the Minneapolis Public Library. The Society was also the parent body for the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts (established in 1886 and existing under the society's governance until 1988), housed at the public library and other locations from 1889 to 1915. In 1970, the school changed its name to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and in 1988 it became an independent organization. Information from the society on its plans to reorganize its membership in order to further fund the school of art, to promote the creation of a symphony orchestra, and to build a municipal art museum for housing collections and providing room for the school. 1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages).
Title from cover. "Supplement to the Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, September, 1915." Includes a list of the officers and members of the Board of Trustees, list of the Trustees, list of ex-officio members, list of classes of membership, and list of members. A 1915 overview of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts (incorporated 1883 and existing to the present), which is the parent and governing body for the Minneapolis Institute of Art (opening in 1915 and existing to the present) and the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts (established in 1886 and existing under the society's governance until 1988). In 1970, the school changed its name to the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and in 1988 it became an independent organization. 21 pages: illustrations.
Contents: Present officers and trustees -- Foreword -- The Minneapolis Institute of Art [plans, donors, and collections] -- Plan of exhibits -- General information [location, hours of opening, lunch room, membership, etc.] -- Miscellaneous statistics -- The Minneapolis School of Art -- Articles of Incorporation -- By-Laws -- Enabling Act -- Deed of Gift [between Clinton Morrison and the City of Minneapolis] -- Agreement [between the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, acting through the Board of Park Commissioners and the Minneapolis Society of Fines Arts] -- Acceptance by city [of Minneapolis at the meeting of the Board of Park Commissioners for the deed of gift from Clinton Morrison to the city hereafter known as Dorilus Morrison Park] -- Officers and trustees 1883 to 1922 -- Membership -- Classes of membership -- Names of members: Benefactors; Patrons; Fellows in Perpetuity; Fellows for life; Life members; Annual members; Educators; Associate members; Clubs. 63 pages: illustrations, plans.
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).
Catalog from the spring art exhibition organized by the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, parent and governing body of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The exhibit was also held in Winona, Minnesota under the auspices of the Minnesota State Art Society. Some of the works were part of an award competition including: non-Minnesota artists; members of the Governing Board, Exhibition Committee, and Jury of Award; and, art school students. "This exhibition was arranged by the State Art Society for the City of Winona, and opened there on March eighteenth, closing April first, nineteen hundred five". Includes a short background of the Minnesota State Art Society and a list of its current Governing Board. Includes artist biographical information and their addresses. 32 pages.
Title from cover. Includes artist biographical information. "The ancient Chinese and Japanese paintings exhibited in Gallery C1 have been lent to the Institute by Mr. Garrett Chatfield Pier of Chicago ... Together with ... a group of Chinese and Japanese textile fabrics lent by Dr. Alfred Owre of Minneapolis."--Page 3-4. "The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Joseph Breck, Director ... "--Back cover. Contents: Ancient Chinese and Japanese paintings and textile fabrics; Paintings by Bryson Burroughs; Paintings from the Carnegie International Exhibition, 1914. 15 pages.
Variant titles: Special exhibition of watercolors by members of the New York Water Color Club, February 16 to March 1, 1912; Water colors by members of the New York Water Color Club, February 16 to March 1, 1912. Title from cover. At head of title: "Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts". Exhibition checklist from an exhibition sponsored by the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, parent and governing body of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Rectangular logo of the society with headless winged figure printed on front cover. Typescript (mimeographed). 4 unnumbered leaves.
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 cover. At head of title: "Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts". Includes a list of the artist's sketches/studies for various commercial and residential murals; and, photographs of installed murals. Includes artist biographical information. Typescript (mimeographed). Rectangular logo of the society with headless winged figure printed on front cover. 5 unnumbered leaves.
American Society of Illustrators; American Federation of Arts
Date Created:
1912?
Description:
Variant titles: Illustrations by the American Society of Illustrators; Catalogue, Society of American Illustrators, exhibition. Title from cover. Catalog from an exhibition sponsored by the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, parent and governing body of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Typescript (mimeographed). Rectangular logo of the society with headless winged figure printed on front cover. 6 unnumbered leaves.
Title from cover. Reprint. Originally published: Proceedings of the American Association of Museums. Vol. 11 (1908). Koehler gives a presentation on the requirements and considerations for establishing an art museum based on his experiences for planning facilities at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Minnesota State Art Society. 1 unnumbered page, pages 125-131.
Catalog from an exhibition sponsored by the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, parent and governing body of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The exhibit included works by members of the Artists League of Minneapolis. Title from cover. At head of title: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts. Rectangular logo of the society with headless winged figure printed on front cover. Includes artists' addresses. 1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages).
Variant title: Exhibition by the Alumni Association of the Minneapolis School of Art. Title from cover. Exhibition catalog from an exhibition sponsored by the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, parent and governing body of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. At head of title: "Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts". Rectangular logo of the society with headless winged figure printed on front cover. 1 folded sheet (6 unnumbered pages).