100 Years and Counting: Select Works From the Minnesota Museum of American Art

Minnesota Museum of American Art’s (“the M,” for short) signature exhibition in December is a choice sampling of the museum’s remarkable collection of American art, featuring dozens of works from 100 years ago to today. Explore the depth and breadth of the M’s collection, including early 20th-century paintings, photographs, sculptures by George Morrison and Paul Manship, incredible drawings, mid-century studio craft, sculpture, prints, collages, and up-to-the-minute recent acquisitions by outstanding American artists.

100 Years and Counting is organized for stunning visual impact and arresting moments of comparison and conversation among artworks from differing eras, genres, media, and perspectives. Like the juxtaposition of Patrick DesJarlait’s striking watercolor Red Lake Fishermen and Jasper Cropsey’s Stalking Deer, or Margaret Bourke-White’s Gold Miners and Alec Soth’s oil field worker, Brian, Williston, North Dakota. The exhibition brings out old favorites that haven’t been seen in years, like Jerome Hill’s 1965 The Striped Skirt, and brand-new acquisitions, like Sonya Clark’s powerful Triangle Trade from 2011.

This exhibition proves the point that this museum has been around a while—over 100 years, in fact—and its American art collection reflects that visual trajectory. It also shows that the new M, in this incredible new building and home, is likewise continuing to grow, to thrive, to build—indeed, counting our years and our way into a new era of significance, art, and visual engagement.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website