Woodcuts at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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Prints and Drawings from the Museum's Permanent Collection

The Department of Prints and Drawings at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) was established in 1916.  It is responsible for the care, exhibition, and acquisition of works of art on paper.  

These include woodcuts, engravings, etchings, lithographs, screenprints, drawings, watercolors, pastels, monotypes, multiples, artists' books, and rare books, ranging from early 14th-century illuminated manuscripts to contemporary works on paper. It is the MIA’s hidden treasure chest.

Many of the greatest European and American artists from the Renaissance to the present are represented, often in considerable depth and quality.

Here are my favorite WOODCUTS:

The Kiss, 1902

By Edvard Munch  (Norway)

Color Woodcut

On the Beach, 1903

Vassily Kandinsky (Russia)

Color Woodcut

Young Girl with a Pitcher, 1890

By Auguste Louis Lepere (France)

Color Woodcut

Moon Bridge at Kameido, 1914

By Helen Hyde (USA)

Color Woodcut on Japan Paper

Five O'Clock, 1901

By Felix Vallotton (Switzerland)

Woodcut

The Window of Lalique, 1901

By Felix Vallotton (Switzerland)

Woodcut

Ernest, 1902 - 1911

Jean-Emile Laboureur (France)

Woodcut, Color Lithograph