Minnesota Representational Art History

TFAO's Distinguished Artists catalogue provides online access to biographical information for artists associated with this state. Also, Search Resource Library for online articles and essays concerning both individual artists associated with this state's history and the history of art centers and museums in this state. Resource Library articles and essays devoted to individual artists and institutions are not listed on this page.

Books:

Minnesota Impressionists by Rena Neumann Coen. 96 pages. Publisher: Afton Historical Society Press; 1st edition (October 1996). ISBN-10: 0963933868. ISBN-13: 978-0963933867. Product Description: "AN UNEXPLORED CHAPTER in American art is treated with eloquence in this beautiful book. The period covered is pre-1940. Twenty-seven artists including Nicholas Brewer, Elizabeth Chant, and Alexis Jean Fournier and their paintings are addressed in separate essays, arranged alphabetically for easy reference." (text courtesy of Amazon.com)

Minnesota 1900: Art and Life on the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1915, By Michael Conforti. Published by University of Delaware Press, 1994, ISBN 0874135605, 9780874135602. 333 pages. Google Books says: "This work examines advances in architecture, design, and painting in a region now recognized for its contribution to the Arts and Crafts and Prairie School movements. The work of many well-known American artists is featured, including the architects Cass Gilbert, Harvey Ellis, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Purcell and Elmslie, ceramicist Ernest Batchelder, and the painters Homer Dodge Martin and Alexander Fournier.."

Monumental Minnesota: A Guide to Outdoor Sculpture, By Moira F. Harris. Published by Pogo Press, 1992. ISBN 096177679X, 9780961776794. 146 pages

Their Splendid Legacy: The First 100 Years of the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, By Jeffrey A. Hess. Published by The Society, 1985. ISBN 0912964170, 9780912964171. 101 pages

Painting and Sculpture in Minnesota, 1820-1914, By Rena Neumann Coen, University of Minnesota University Gallery. Published by Published by the University of Minnesota Press for the University Gallery of the University of Minnesota, 1976. ISBN 0816607710, 9780816607716. 146 pages. "Also serves as a catalogue for one of the components of the University Gallery's major Bicentennial exhibition, The art and architecture of Minnesota." Source: Google Books

Accomplishments: Minnesota art projects in the depression years: essay and catalog, by Nancy A Johnson. Publisher: Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth (1976).

A Century of Art and Architecture in Minnesota, By Donald R. Torbert. Published by University of Minnesota Press, 1958. Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized Jan 22, 2007. 62 pages

History of the Arts in Minnesota, by Grace Lee Nute, Donald R. Torbert John K. Sherman. 62 pages. Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (1958).

History of Minneapolis: Gateway to the Northwest, By Marion Daniel Shutter, Published by The S.J. Clarke publishing company, 1932. Original from the University of Virginia. Digitized Jan 16, 2008

A Half Century of Minneapolis, By Horace Bushnell Hudson. Published by Hudson Pub. Co., 1908. Original from Harvard University. Digitized Feb 1, 2008. 569 pages. Full View available via Google Books.

History of the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, By Isaac Atwater, Published by Munsell, 1893. Item notes: v.2. Original from Harvard University. Digitized Sep 15, 2006. 1021 pages. Full View available via Google Books.

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