https://mmaacollections.omeka.net/items/browse?tags=Figures&output=atom2024-03-28T10:08:30-04:00Omekahttps://mmaacollections.omeka.net/items/show/422Saint Paul's Most Wanted]]>2020-03-17T16:13:08-04:00
Stella Ebner's print was purchased out of the exhibition Minnesota Biennial: 2D-2000. This exhibition was hosted by the Minnesota Museum of American Art at 50 West Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, MN, from May 6 through July 30, 2000.
Rights Statement
In Copyright
]]>https://mmaacollections.omeka.net/items/show/397Nancy, from the Paper Doll Series]]>2020-03-17T16:24:51-04:00
Artist
Grace Hartigan
1922-2008
Born in Newark, NJ
Died in Baltimore, MD
Title
Nancy, from the Paper Doll Series
Date
1981
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimension
79 x 80 inches
Credit Line
Gift of Dolly J. Fiterman
Object ID
2016.10.01
Notes
Grace Hartigan is one of the leading 2nd generation Abstract Expressionist painters who exhibited with friends like William DeKooning, Jackson Pollock, and Milton Avery. She began in the 1950s doing abstract work, which morphed in the 70s and 80s into work that portrayed a fascination with both ancient and popular culture. Her signature colors and drips became connected with icons of popular culture, in this case, a series of paintings on movie stars of the 1930s. Nancy is one of the Paper Dolls series, an all-over painting that brings figuration back into abstract forms. She was inspired by the Glamorous Movie Stars of the Thirties paper doll book, where images emerge "like through a rain forest." She depicts them not as dolls but as women, stuck between Hollywood pop culture and painterly presence. Nancy is named for Nancy Carroll, one of the stars in the book. It is the first work by Grace Hartigan in the M's collection.
]]>https://mmaacollections.omeka.net/items/show/357Ancients Contemplating the Modern World #1, Venice, Italy]]>2020-03-17T16:29:29-04:00
Artist
Mary Tortorici
b. 1956
Born in Boston, MA
Title
Ancients Contemplating the Modern World #1, Venice, Italy
Date
1995
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimension
14 x 11 inches (sheet)
13 x 10 1/4 inches (image)
Credit Line
Gift of George Slade in memory of Jim Czarniecki and his love for photography.
Object ID
2007.07.25
Notes
Trompe l'oeil is a painting or design intended to create the illusion of a three-dimensional object.
Rights Statement
In Copyright
]]>https://mmaacollections.omeka.net/items/show/345Down the Hill]]>2020-03-17T16:32:07-04:00
Artist
Jenn Ackerman
b. 1980
Born in Virginia Beach, VA
Title
Down the Hill
Date
2016
Medium
Archival pigment print
Dimension
25 x 38 inches
Credit Line
Purchase, Acquisition Fund, 2016 State Fair Purchase Award
Object ID
2016.11.01
Notes
If you follow photography, you know that artists tend to shoot standing on their feet. That is, capturing an image that is directly in front of the camera. Jenn Ackerman's Frozen series began in the same way; she shot scenes and portraits of people living and thriving in the cold. Down the Hill was part of a follow up series of photographs of the Minnesota winter that was shot with a different perspective. In this case, Ackerman shot the photo while she was hanging out of a helicopter a few hundred feet above Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis. Jenn Ackerman is an American photographer based in Minneapolis. She was named a McKnight Fellow in 2012. With her firm DBA Ackerman + Gruber, she works for editorial and advertising clients including Esquire, People, Fortune, The New York Times, and many others. Her work has been focused on how a place defines its people in environmental portraits and landscapes.