Pierre-Félix Fix-Masseau, Exactitude, 1932, Color lithograph, The Modernism Collection, gift of Norwest Bank Minnesota

Papier Moderne

Sunday, June 11, 2006—Sunday, January 21, 2007
Gallery 368
Free Exhibition

Debuting in this new third-floor gallery are modernist paperworks selected from the 140 pieces generously donated to the Institute as part of the Norwest Modernism Collection in 1998. The initial installation will range from Alphonse Maria Mucha's exquisite suite of lithographs, The Four Flowers (1897) to Dadaist exercises in impudent typography.

Works drawn from the remainder of this collection are installed in two companion galleries. The new gallery is devoted to modernist works on paper ranging from architectural renderings, design sketches, wallpapers, photo-montage, collage, graphic design, posters, and portfolios to illustrated books. Its purpose is to provide a forum for examining the dramatic convergence of diverse media in the twentieth century. It is also intended to complement "Papermade Modernism," an examination of paper as sculptural form on view at Wells Fargo Center in Minneapolis through September 2006.