Minnesota Marine Art Museum
MINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM
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Winona Like the license plate says, Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes. The state is also the birthplace of the Mississippi River; dozens of other rivers spider-web its earth as Lake Superior pats the top of its head. Even if it isn’t coastal, Minnesota has liquid assets. “Most people in Minnesota have a strong connection to water,” said Dave Casey, assistant curator of education and exhibitions at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum (MMAM) in Winona. That is why an art museum whose collection is tied to water makes sense here. “Great art, inspired by water,” is how the museum describes its collecting principles as it sits within sight of the Mississippi River. That guiding principle yields a surprisingly broad collection. There’s the expected, like Emanuel Leutze’s iconic “Washington Crossing the Delaware” from 1851. This painting hung in the White House for 30 years before it was purchased by MMAM. There’s also the edgy and unexpected, such as an upcoming exhibition of Hawaii photographer Christy Lee Rogers’ surrealistic underwater images. She was named the 2019 Sony World Open Photographer of the Year. “Her underwater photographs of people in motion in colorful dresses look like 17th-century baroque paintings,” Casey said. Artists not thought of as marine artists also hang here: Georgia O’Keeffe, three generations of Wyeths, Vincent van Gogh, John James Audubon, even Pablo Picasso. “No one would think of him as a marine artist, but you will see water pop up in his work,” said Casey. The museum is best known for its Hudson Valley School collection but is also rich
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“Her underwater photographs of people in motion in colorful dresses look like 17th-century baroque paintings.”
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