Tweed Museum of Art

Tweed Museum of Art Art museum at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

The Tweed will open at 11 am on Friday, October 31, so that all museum staff can attend the College of Arts, Humanities,...
10/30/2025

The Tweed will open at 11 am on Friday, October 31, so that all museum staff can attend the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Assembly.

๐™ฒ๐™ป๐™ฐ๐š‚๐š‚ ๐š…๐™ธ๐š‚๐™ธ๐šƒAssistant Professor Paul LaJeunesse and his painting students
10/09/2025

๐™ฒ๐™ป๐™ฐ๐š‚๐š‚ ๐š…๐™ธ๐š‚๐™ธ๐šƒ
Assistant Professor Paul LaJeunesse and his painting students

We are closed. Thank you for your understanding. See you next week!Reminderโ€”we will be open special hours on Saturday, O...
10/03/2025

We are closed. Thank you for your understanding.

See you next week!

Reminderโ€”we will be open special hours on Saturday, October 11 from 11 am โ€“ 4 pm.

๐™ฟ๐™ป๐™ฐ๐™ฝ ๐šˆ๐™พ๐š„๐š ๐š…๐™ธ๐š‚๐™ธ๐šƒIf you are not able to visit during regular weekday museum hours, stop by on the Saturdays below from 11 ...
07/31/2025

๐™ฟ๐™ป๐™ฐ๐™ฝ ๐šˆ๐™พ๐š„๐š ๐š…๐™ธ๐š‚๐™ธ๐šƒ

If you are not able to visit during regular weekday museum hours, stop by on the Saturdays below from 11 am โ€“ 4 pm.

August 23
September 20
October 11

๐˜•๐˜ฐ ๐˜—๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜“๐˜ช๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด is extended through October 11!

We look forward to welcoming you (or
welcoming you back) to the Tweed.

05/02/2025
Join us from 4 -6 pm on Tuesday, April 15 for the opening of Emily Markgrafโ€™s Senior Exhibition, ๐˜๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ต. On view April 15...
04/15/2025

Join us from 4 -6 pm on Tuesday, April 15 for the opening of Emily Markgrafโ€™s Senior Exhibition, ๐˜๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ต.

On view April 15 - 26
Tweed Museum of Art

It was an honor to host Americaโ€™s Government Teacher at the Tweed. Congratulations  on your  award recognizing your sign...
04/12/2025

It was an honor to host Americaโ€™s Government Teacher at the Tweed. Congratulations on your award recognizing your significant contributions to the civic fabric of Minnesota.

Due to inclement weather, the museum closed early to ensure our staff could travel safely home.See you tomorrow in the g...
04/02/2025

Due to inclement weather, the museum closed early to ensure our staff could travel safely home.

See you tomorrow in the galleries!

Tweed student graphic designers at work.  โšก๏ธ๐Ÿงฐ๐Ÿชœ
03/22/2025

Tweed student graphic designers at work. โšก๏ธ๐Ÿงฐ๐Ÿชœ

๐™ต๐š๐™พ๐™ผ ๐šƒ๐™ท๐™ด ๐™ฒ๐™พ๐™ป๐™ป๐™ด๐™ฒ๐šƒ๐™ธ๐™พ๐™ฝGerman-born artist Ruth Vollmer (1903 โ€“ 1982) arrived in New York City after emigrating from Berlin w...
03/16/2025

๐™ต๐š๐™พ๐™ผ ๐šƒ๐™ท๐™ด ๐™ฒ๐™พ๐™ป๐™ป๐™ด๐™ฒ๐šƒ๐™ธ๐™พ๐™ฝ

German-born artist Ruth Vollmer (1903 โ€“ 1982) arrived in New York City after emigrating from Berlin with her husband in 1935. By the 1960s the couple had cultivated a circle of friends in the art world including artists, critics, curators, and collectors. Among these were Robert Smithson, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre, and her close friend Eva Hesse. Vollmer had her first solo exhibition at the age of 57. By 1970 Vollmer began exploring complex geometrical forms and mathematical concepts, with a particular interest in platonic solids and spiralsโ€”as seen here in this drawing, ๐˜š๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜‹๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ (1973), from the Tweedโ€™s collection.

Critic Roberta Smith wrote about Vollmerโ€™s work for ๐˜ˆ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ in 1974: โ€œVollmerโ€™s art is concerned with the process of discovering and exploring the logic and the systems which underlie all forms, and when it succeeds, it involves us in that process of thought too, and in the continuing sense of flow and wonder which she experiences in her work.โ€




*This work is not on view.*

๐™ต๐š๐™พ๐™ผ ๐šƒ๐™ท๐™ด ๐™ฒ๐™พ๐™ป๐™ป๐™ด๐™ฒ๐šƒ๐™ธ๐™พ๐™ฝJacob Lawrence (1917 โ€“ 2000)๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ 1920๐˜ดโ€ฆ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜”๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ˆ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜‰๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ด, 1974Color screenpri...
02/20/2025

๐™ต๐š๐™พ๐™ผ ๐šƒ๐™ท๐™ด ๐™ฒ๐™พ๐™ป๐™ป๐™ด๐™ฒ๐šƒ๐™ธ๐™พ๐™ฝ

Jacob Lawrence (1917 โ€“ 2000)
๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ 1920๐˜ดโ€ฆ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜”๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ˆ๐˜ณ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜‰๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ด, 1974
Color screenprint
ยฉ The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. This print is part of a portfolio issued to celebrate the American Bicentennial, in which leading American artists were asked to create works that spoke to their interpretation of independence.

Jacob Lawrence is best known for his work that depicts the African American experience. In the mid-1970s, Lawrence began making screenprints of subjects he had explored in painting throughout his career, including the sixty panels of his landmark ๐˜”๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜š๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ด (1941). Although the 14th Amendment to the Constitution (1868) granted citizenship to formerly enslaved Americans, and the 15th Amendment (1870) established a constitutional right to vote for African American men, states across the South and elsewhere in the US restricted the voting rights of Black citizens. In this print Lawrence portrays African Americans voting for the first time after migrating to the North starting in the 1920s.

Delayed OpeningTuesday, February 18The museum will open at 12 pm today.
02/18/2025

Delayed Opening
Tuesday, February 18

The museum will open at 12 pm today.

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