Minnesota Marine Art Museum
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum (short MMAM) is an art museum in Winona in the US state of Minnesota . The museum, founded in 2006, focuses on 19th and 20th century marine painting from the United States and Europe.
history
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum was initiated by Bob Kierlen, co-founder of Winona-based Fastenal , and his wife, Mary Burrichter. The couple had the museum built on Riverview Drive on the banks of the Mississippi River in the industrial port of Winona. When it opened on July 27, 2006, there were initially three exhibition rooms, which have now been expanded to six gallery rooms through further additions. The museum is surrounded by a landscaped garden with numerous plants.
collection
The core of the museum's collection are works of marine painting, maritime folk art , photographs and antiques related to seafaring. In addition, the museum founders Mary Burrichter and Bob Kierlen have given the museum works from their private collection on permanent loan that are particularly related to the topic of water. This includes works by numerous well-known artists.
An example of the early marine painting in the museum is the baroque painting Coastal Landscape with Dutch Frigates by Simon de Vlieger . There are also nineteenth-century seascapes by British painters such as Edward William Cooke , James E. Buttersworth and Robert Salmon, and American painters such as William Frederick de Haas and William Bradford . In addition, there are individual works of the 20th century such as the 1961 painting East Ironbound Winter by the Canadian artist Jack L. Gray or the work Ariel and Taeping, Racing Along the White Cliffs by the Dutch artist Maarten Platje, which is connected to classic marine painting but only created in 2005 . This part of the collection is supplemented, for example, by a portrait of Lord Nelson by the English portrait painter Samuel Lane .
American works of the 19th century are particularly well represented in the permanent exhibition. This includes works by the Hudson River School with landscapes such as A View of Boston by Thomas Cole , Sunrise by Albert Bierstadt , A Pool in the Adirondacks by Arthur Parton , Alpine Lake Scene by Hermann Ottomar Herzog , At Newport by John Frederick Kensett , Near Southampton by Thomas Moran , The Great Florida Sunset by Martin Johnson Heade and Mount Orford by Robert Scott Duncanson . Further American works of the 19th century are the animal representation White-Headed Eagle by John James Audubon and a version of the history painting Washington Crossing the Delaware by the German-American Emanuel Leutze . As a representative of realism , Winslow Homer can be seen in the museum with the painting Winding Line from 1874. There are also works of American Impressionism such as the New England motif The Harbor by Childe Hassam , the garden scene Correspondence by Theodore Robinson and the portrait of a girl Françoise in Round Back Chair Reading by Mary Cassatt
The museum also has a number of works of 19th century European painting. These include above all works by French artists such as the river landscape Brûme Matinale au Marais by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot or the peasant portrait Paysan répandant du fumier by Jean-François Millet . There are also paintings by the French Impressionists such as the port view La Jetée de Boulogne by Édouard Manet , the equestrian study Les Entraîneurs by Edgar Degas , the mythological landscape painting La Fête de Pan and the river landscapes La Seine à Vétheuil by Claude Monet , Rosbras by Berthe Morisot and Les Andelys, L'île à Lucas by Paul Signac . A river landscape can also be found as the background for the still life Nature Morte aux Oignons by Paul Gauguin . There is an early work by the Dutchman Vincent van Gogh in the museum, a motif that belongs to Scheveningen Beach in Calm . Examples of British painting are the watercolor Heidelberg with a Rainbow by William Turner and the painting Howth Head, near Dublin by James McNeill Whistler .
20th century works in the museum include paintings by American artists such as the New England motif Paradise Point, Newport by George Bellows, and the landscape paintings Autumn Cascade by Marsden Hartley and Crepescule by Maurice Prendergast . There are also the motifs Lake George, Autumn by Georgia O'Keeffe , Little Caldwell's Island by Andrew Wyeth and Two Boats and Sea, Cape Split, Maine by John Marin . The European painting of the 20th century in the museum includes, for example, the works Rapallo, Boats by Wassily Kandinsky , the Lake Constance motif Spring on the Höri with a view of Steckborn by Otto Dix , the woman portrait Interiéur a Nice, Femme Assise avec un Livre by Henri Matisse , the belonging to the representational early work Two tree silhouettes on the river of Piet Mondrian and Arles, the Arena with the Rhone in the background of Pablo Picasso .
The museum also has works by contemporary artists such as The Warning by Jamie Wyeth and Aorta by Leo and Marilyn Smith . There are also photographs such as Grand Tetons and the Snake River by Ansel Adams or works by photographers Cameron Glendenning , Stuart Klipper , Craig Blacklock and Drake Hokanson .
literature
- Annette Blaugrund: Charting New Waters: Redefining Marine Painting, Masterworks From the Burrichter / Kierlin Collection . Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, Minnesota 2011, ISBN 978-0-9898062-0-6 .
- Leo Reginald Smith, Marilyn Smith: Minnesota Marine Art Museum . Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, Minnesota 2011, ISBN 978-0-9716904-5-5 .
- Violet Verne: Fillmore County, Minnesota . Grand Rapids, Michigan 2012, ISBN 978-1-249-23286-5 .
Web links
- Minnesota Marine Art Museum website
- David Krotz: Minnesota Marine Art Museum to house pieces of unbelievable quality. In: Winona Daily News. September 7, 2005.
- Pamela Espeland: Fine art, music and Shakespeare in Winona; Cantus sings about human rights. In: MinnPost. March 30, 2017.
- Laura Hayes: Three French artists added to MMAM. In: Winona Post. 29th March 2017.
Individual evidence
- ^ 'Washington Crossing The Delaware' art piece on display at MMAM. February 22, 2012, accessed April 2, 2017 .
Coordinates: 44 ° 3 ′ 34.5 " N , 91 ° 39 ′ 28" W.