The Star Tribune recently featured Winona’s Minnesota Marine Art Museum (MMAM) after the “This Is New York” exhibition opened. The exhibition includes “15 paintings depicting the Big Apple, from its early days as a small Dutch colony to its present-day, skyscraper-filled skyline.”
The article states that it is unique for a city the size of Winona to have such big names in a museum. “That surprise is part of the museum’s charm.” MMAM’s executive director Nicole Chamberlain-Dupree adds on, “When I am up in the Twin Cities, going to events or just talking to people or colleagues, and I tell them we have two Monets, two Picassos, two Matisses and a Chagall, they’ll be like, ‘Wait a minute, really?’ ”
Some of the other pieces in this exhibit include L.F. Tantillo’s “East River Waterfront, c. 1662,” Joseph Stella’s 1922 painting “Study of the Brooklyn Bridge,” and Charles Sheeler’s 1932 “View of Central Park.” To read the whole article, click here.