By: Alyssa Thiede, Curator October 1, 2025, updated December 17, 2025 Fig. 1: Unknown Artist, Angel Gabriel Weathervane, circa 1857. Iron, gilt. (26” x 62.5” x 2”) Photo by Dan Dennehy. Courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. “A [...]
By: Nina Clark 4/2/2024 Bjorkman's dressing gown from the HHM collection. Hennepin History Museum (HHM) has five objects in its collection that carry the label of Roy H. Bjorkman, a former Minneapolis apparel retailer. These items from his eponymous [...]
March 19, 2019 Image from HHM Collections This Foley food mill in the collection at Hennepin History Museum was one of Foley Manufacturing Company’s most popular products. Foley was founded in 1926 by Walter M. Ringer. When he introduced [...]
Lock and Dam No. 2, Mississippi River, Minneapolis, 2013. Acrylic on Paper. “American cities change at a frightening speed, usually with little regard for the past...It saddens me to think that some of my older photographs may be the [...]
Hero (Father and Son’s), Digital Collage, Acrylic, Paper on Canvas. 24” x 18” Untitled (Men by Fire), Digital Collage, Acrylic, Spray-paint, Paper on Canvas. 24” x 36” Last year, Hennepin History Museum commissioned Past, Present and Future: The [...]
Bettye Olson. "Water and Bridge," Watercolor and Oil Pastel. 35" x 27" Circa 1999. 1/30/2024 The West Lake Gallery opened in 1965 as the first women-founded art gallery in the Twin Cities. Over twenty years, West Lake Gallery hosted hundreds [...]
10/26/2023 Officially adopted in 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment states that the “right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Before this important victory, [...]
Backgammon Players, Oil on Canvas, 25" x 39” The Mary Gale Hobbs’ collection in Hennepin History Museum is bright and full of character. Hobbs’ bold color choices catches the eye and her playful portraiture imparts personality, not just of [...]
August 1, 2023 Progress, 1936. By Wanda Gág (1893-1946) Lithograph. 17.5" x 20.5" Wanda Gág (pronounced Gog) was born in New Ulm, Minnesota in 1893. She was the eldest of seven children born to Czech-immigrant parents. Both of her [...]
May 24, 2023 Harbor – Grand Marais, 1954. Birney Quick (1912 – 1981) Ink on Paper. 18.525" x 24.5" Birney Quick (1912-1981) produced more than 10,000 works of art in his lifetime. He was a teacher, loved to fish, [...]
