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Applied Arts Gift in Minneapolis

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts has received its largest corporate donation of art ever: 471 works of modernist decorative and applied art dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as works upon paper. It is a gift from Norwest Bank Minnesota, which accumulated the collection above a period of 12 years at a require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergone of nearly $5 million. It includes examples from the Arts and Crafts move Art Nouveau, the Wiener Werkstatte, De Stijl, the Bauhaus and Art Deco and features designs by dint of Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Josef Hoffmann, Gerrit Rietveld, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Dorwin Teague and August Thonet among others.

In July the Institute will near "Milestones of Modernism 1880-1940: Selections from the Norwest Collection," and early nearest year the museum will dedicate its novel Wells Fargo Gallery of Modernist Design, named after the San Francisco-based bank with which Norwest not long ago merged.



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