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Article: Making an impression; REVIEW: The Jones Print Collection at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has more than 6,000 works. A show celebrating the opening of the expanded museum displays 200 of them, the largest sampling on view in 90 years.(SCENE)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 2, 2006
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Byline: Doug Hanson
Special to the Star Tribune
In connection with the June 11 grand opening of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts' new wing, the museum has pulled from its flat files some 200 engravings, lithographs, and woodcuts from the 6,000 works in its Herschel V. Jones Print Collection, donated early in the 20th century by Jones, then-publisher of the Minneapolis Journal newspaper. The collection's three main focuses are its 15th- and 16th-century old master prints from Italy, Germany, and the Low Countries, an array of Rembrandts from the 17th century and dark, romantic cityscapes and landscapes from the late 19th-century print revival that ...
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