Bill Shelley
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Small Town #1: Duluth, Minnesota - The Tweed Museum
The day we visited the Tweed Museum the predicted high in Duluth was 3 Fahrenheit. The museum, nestled inside a bunker-like building at the University of Minnesota Duluth campus, provides a warm and welcoming oasis to any art-seeker who finds him or herself on the shores of this cold Lake Superior town.
The museum was established in 1950 when Alice Tweed Tuohy donated her house and art collection to the University. The home-museum was moved to the UM campus in 1958, and has been expanded and renovated four times since, lastly in 2008.
The exhibit spaces include nine galleries, and the collection focuses on American and European art, as well as highlighting outsider and Native American art from the region.
The museum also holds a collection of the iconic Royal Canadian Mounted Police paintings and drawings by Arnold Friberg. Those hyper-masculine, father-figure images were used on thousands and thousands of promotional calendars during the 50's and 60's.
Here are a few of my favorite pieces from the "Asymmetry/Three-Dimensional Works from the Tweed Collection" show, currently on view at the Tweed.
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