Amber Waves of Grain
TWEED
museum • of • art
1989 • february • march • april 1989
Amber Waves of Grain, installation, Boston Museum of Science, 1986.
The Nuclear Arsenal Project
Amber Waves of Grain, a 34,000 piece 
clay replica of the United States nuclear 
arsenal will be installed in Gallery 1 of 
the Tweed Museum after touring several 
major cities in this country and in 
Europe, The exhibit represents the 
31,500 warheads, 2000 land and sea­
based ballistic missiles, 324 
intercontinental bombers and 37 nuclear 
submarines in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, 
along with U.S./U.S.S.R. force 
comparisons. The exhibition presents a 
broad, factual, effective and unbiased look 
at nuclear armaments.
Denver artists Barbara Donachy and 
Andy Bardwell began the exhibit after a 
trip to Europe in 1981. While traveling, 
they were impressed by the concern of 
Europeans over the issue of nuclear 
weapons and felt that "like most 
Americans, we were embarrassingly 
ignorant of the realities of nuclear 
weapons.” As a ceramic artist, Donachy 
made this exhibit, along with 70 friends 
and volunteers, to raise consciousness 
and educate people about the issue.
For most viewers the power of the 
exhibit comes from its directness and 
from the dichotomy created by the 
beauty of the tranquil field of miniature 
cones which look very much like a 
streaked and windy field of wheat and 
their potential for destruction.
Since artist Barbara Donachy considers 
Amber Waves of Grain to be a prime 
example of public art, collaboration with 
students, faculty and staff of the 
University of Minnesota, Duluth, and 
members of the Duluth community is 
welcomed. The process of installing this 
work of art will occur in the Tweed 
galleries February 11-14. The exhibition 
will run through April 2. Persons 
interested in volunteering to help set up 
the 35,000 piece clay replica of the U.S. 
Nuclear arsenal can call Tweed Curator. 
Martin DeWitt at 726-8222.
current & upcoming exhibitions
Eight McKnight Artists
January 9 - February 10
The Tweed Museum of Art will 
present the exhibition Eight McKnight 
Artists in Gallery 1 beginning January 9 
and continuing through February 10. 
This group exhibition presents the art of 
the recipients of the 1988 visual artist 
fellowships given each year since 1981 by 
the McKnight Foundation of 
Minneapolis.
The exhibition will present the work 
of Minnesota artists Frank Gaard. Terry 
Hildebrand, Gendron Jensen. Kathy 
Hemingway Jones. Walter Jost, Mike 
Lynch, Zoran Mojsilov and Aldo Moroni 
who each received, in addition to the 
exhibition, a $5,000 grant. The grant 
recipients were selected from a field of 
200 applicants by Lisa Lyons, director of 
acquisitions, the Museum Fund of 
Minneapolis; Douglas Schultz, director. 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Buffalo. New 
York and Lowery Sims, curator of 20th 
Century Art, Metropolitan Museum of 
Art, New York City.
Gendron Jensen and Mike Lynch are 
familiar artists to Tweed visitors, both 
having been included in recent 
exhibitions — the former with his large 
and finely rendered bone drawings and 
the latter with his evocative lithographs 
of Duluth. Frank Gaard creates paintings 
and drawings that tread the fine line 
between satire and the obscene.
Walter Jost presents monumentally 
scaled oil paintings while Zoran Mojsilov 
strives to reveal "the soul of wood” in his 
sculpture. Terry Hildebrand’s assemblage 
sculptures tend to be more colorful and 
detailed than Mojsilov’s with what one 
writer has called the "looney exuberance 
of a northwoods Chagall." Aldo Moroni 
works with ceramic models of cities and 
their people and buildings, in this 
instance, details of a Roman city in 
constant, slow-motion change.
Kathy Hemingway Jones has worked in 
photography and as a director, stage 
designer and author. In this exhibition 
we see a video representing her 
installation and performance art.
An illustrated catalogue accompanies 
the exhibition.
Philip Evergood, Swimming Lessons, oil on canvas, 
30x40".
Human Expression in Art
January 10 - April 2
In Gallery 9 the Museum has mounted 
an exhibition from the Permanent 
Collection around the theme Human 
Expression in Art. This exhibition has 
been prepared by the Tweed staff for use 
by students in the University's core 
curriculum program.
The exhibition explores such basic 
artistic components as structure, rhyme, 
rhythm, composition, illusion and 
allegory. The Tweed’s collection, which 
numbers more than 3,500 objects, serves 
as a resource for the University and the 
community. Some twenty five pieces, 
including paintings, drawings, sculpture 
and primitive art will be included in the 
exhibition.
Portraits and self-portraits by Walt 
Kuhn, Max Weber and Yas Kuniyoshi 
will explore the personal side of artistic 
expression along with the more abstract 
pieces of Ralston Crawford, Will Barnet 
and Jun Kaneko. Artistic expression of a 
social nature will be presented through 
the prints of Grant Wood and Thomas 
Hart Benton, Japanese wood block prints 
and primitive African religious objects.
The exhibition will continue through 
May.
Roy Strassberg Ceramics
February 14 - March 5
The Tweed will present an exhibition 
of the ceramic work of Mankato artist 
Roy Strassberg in Gallery 2 from February 
14 to March 5. Strassberg will present a 
lecture on his work on Wednesday, 
February 15 at 1 p.m. in the Museum’s 
Lecture Gallery.
Much of Strassberg's ceramic work is a 
response to architectural and structural 
forms that are undergoing decay, 
deterioration or disrepair. He has titled a 
recent series of pieces Walking Demolition 
Vessels and Walking Demolition Structures, 
which he calls "A fusion of some playful 
figurative concerns with ... obvious 
architectural reference.”
He uses low temperature white 
earthenware clay finished with 
underglaze and a variety of satin and 
textured surfaces.
Strassberg received an MFA degree 
from the University of Michigan and is 
currently Associate Professor of Art at 
Mankato State University. He received an 
Individual Artist’s Grant from the 
Minnesota State Arts Board in 1982. He 
has exhibited his work at MC Gallery, 
Minneapolis and the Contemporary 
Crafts Gallery, Louisville among many 
others. His work is in the permanent 
collections of the Mint Museum, Plains 
Art Museum and General Mills, 
Incorporated.
Artist Lecture Series
During February, March and April five 
artists will lecture on their work as a part 
of the Artist Lecture Series sponsored 
jointly by the Art Department and the 
Tweed Museum of Art.
Seitu Jones, a visual artist from St. 
Paul, will lecture on his murals and 
sculptures on February 7 at 7 p.m. On 
Tuesday, February 14 at 1 p.m., there will 
be a lecture by Mankato artist Roy 
Strassberg. His ceramics will be exhibited 
in Gallery 2 from February 14 to March 
5. William Goodman, from Hibbing, 
makes sculptural and architectural 
ceramics and will discuss them on March 
15 at 1 p.m. On April 5 at 10 a.m., Bela 
Petheo, a familiar artist to Duluth, will 
talk about his painting career. And, on 
April 12 at 10 a.m., Philip Meany from 
the UMD Art Department will give a 
lecture.
current & upcoming exhibitions
Outdoor Sculpture Installed
The Tweed Museum has embarked on an ambitious project to turn the UMD 
campus into a venue for outdoor sculpture. This fall, five pieces of sculpture were 
installed on campus for a year long exhibition. At the end of the year, one of the 
pieces will be purchased by the Tweed for its permanent collection. This process will 
be repeated for at least the next ten years.
A kinetic sculpture titled Orbitor by Terry Karpowicz of Chicago was placed near the 
parking lot on St. Marie and Stadium Drive. Delicate Balance, a welded steel sculpture 
by Tom Gibbs of Dubuque. Iowa was installed in front of the Darland Administration 
Building. Wayne Potratz, a sculptor from Minneapolis, installed a cast iron turtle 
sculpture in the new sculpture courtyard adjacent to the Tweed Museum. A life-size 
deer sculpture titled Land Seer is also located in the courtyard. Dan Nardi from 
Normal. Illinois installed his cast concrete sculpture Quarter of a New Moon in front of 
the Health Sciences Library.
The sculptures were selected for the program by the Sax Advisory Board to the 
Tweed Museum of Art. This board consults with the Tweed staff on expenditures 
from the Sax Endowment to the Tweed. The endowment was established from the 
estates of Simon, Milton and Jonathan Sax and is responsible for major purchases at 
the Museum and the Sax Sculpture Conservatory and Courtyard.
ANNUAL
ART 
STUDENT
EXHIBITION
April 15 - May 14, 1989
Art Student Exhibitions
Tom Gibbs, Delicate Balance, Welded steel.
Senior and Graduate exhibitions are 
intended to offer UMD art students the 
important experience of planning, 
designing and executing an exhibition of 
their own work. Becoming familiar with 
the professional procedures of museums 
and galleries as well as with the process 
of critical review is essential to the long 
term development of each student 
artist’s portfolio.
These exhibitions provide an 
opportunity for students, faculty and the 
public to view works of art created 
through the UMD art program and to see 
the creative endeavors of one or two art 
students in greater depth. The Annual 
Student Juried Exhibition, which is to be 
held April 15 through May 14. highlights 
a diverse selection of student works 
chosen by an outside juror.
Theresa Beville 
January 31-February 5 
Diane Aldrich 
February 7-12 
Heidi A. Envall 
March 14-19 
Perry Andrews 
March 21-26
Linda Helander 
March 28- April 2
Jayne Hedemark
April 4-9
Felicia Glidden
April 11-16
Robert Farrell
April 18-23
Mary Kay Lundstrom
April 25-30
current & upcoming exhibitions
Sax Conservatory Receives 
Architectural Award
The Sax Sculpture Conservatory and 
Courtyard, the most recent addition to 
the Tweed Museum of Art. has received 
an Honor Award from the Minnesota 
Society American Institute of Architects. 
The award was presented on November 
5, 1988. the same day the Conservatory 
was dedicated with an afternoon ribbon 
cutting and evening Gala.
The award recognizes the 
achievements of Darryl Booker, partner 
in the Duluth architectural firm 
Damberg, Scott, Peck and Booker, who 
was the project’s principal architect. The 
Conservatory was selected for one of 
eight Honor Awards from a field of 85 
Minnesota projects submitted for 
consideration.
The Conservatory will be featured in 
the January issue or Minnesota Architect 
magazine. A citation presented to the 
Museum hangs in the Conservatory near 
the second floor study room.
Sculpture from Minnesota 
Art Museums
November 5 - April 2
An exhibition of twenty-six sculptures 
from six Minnesota art museums will 
continue in the Sax Sculpture 
Conservatory and Gallery 7, through 
March. The modern American sculptures 
are from the collections of the 
Minneapolis Institute of Art, the 
University Art Museum and Walker Art 
Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota 
Museum of Art in St. Paul and the Plains 
Art Museum in Moorhead. This is the 
inaugural exhibition in the recently 
completed Sax Sculpture Conservatory.
Portfolios
February 14 - April 2
On exhibition in Gallery 8 will be 
three artists’ portfolios from the Tweed 
permanent collection. Soft ground 
etchings by Francesco Clemente, 
photographs by Barbara Crane and 
lithographs by Mike Lynch make up this 
16 piece exhibition which will be up 
through March.
Frank Bigbear, American Indian Death Song, prismacolor pencil, 30x44".
Drawings of Maree Elfvin and Frank Bigbear
April 15 - May 4
The Tweed Museum of Art will exhibit the color pencil drawings of two Minnesota 
artists — Frank Bigbear and Marce Elfvin — in Gallery 8 of the Museum from April 
15 to May 15. Both artists use the vivid pencil medium to create bold and colorful 
drawings full of personal and universal symbols.
Bigbear, however, draws upon both his native American ancestory and his 
reflections of today’s culture to make drawings that contain the bit of social 
commentary. His work makes reference to such artistic giants as Picasso, Miro and 
surrealism and yet draws on the native American symbols of thunderbirds, ledger 
book drawings and the sun dance. Bigbear's drawings were organized into an 
exhibition by the North Dakota Museum of Art and have circulated to museums and 
galleries in northern Minnesota through a grant from the Blandin Foundation.
Elfvin's drawings are every bit as detailed as Bigbear's, but use as their source the 
life experiences, dreams and spiritual revelation of their creator. Marce Elfvin, from 
Jacobson, Minnesota, creates drawings reminiscent of Mexican primitive art, that tell 
stories and fables from history, real life of today and handed-down tradition. Many of 
his drawings are portraits of people full of spiritual objects relating to the lives of the 
sitters.
know your tweed collection
American and European 
Paintings from the 
Permanent Collection
A major part of the recent remodeling 
and construction at the Tweed has been 
the reinstallation of the permanent 
collection in the newly redesigned Alice 
Tweed Tuohy Galleries. These Galleries, 
located directly through Gallery 1 and 
just prior to the new Sax Conservatory, 
have been remodeled with new wall 
surfaces, new lighting, a climate control 
system and complete painting.
The Galleries are actually three 
exhibition spaces — one for paintings 
from the American collection, one for 
paintings from the European collection 
and a center gallery for changing 
education exhibitions. The American and 
European galleries will present 
permanent exhibits of the finest pieces 
in the Tweed's collection.
In the European section are some of 
the oldest pieces in the Museum's 
collection, beginning with a 15th century 
rendition of Christ rising from the tomb 
by an anonymous Italian artist. 
Representative works of Italian, Dutch, 
French, German and English artists are 
on display in this gallery. A fine selection 
of the Tweed’s remarkable 19th Century 
French landscape collection, including 
many Barbizon pieces, is on display.
In the American gallery, a broader 
timeframe is represented, beginning with 
exquisite 19th Century landscapes by the 
brothers James MacDougal Hart and 
William Hart. The exhibition moves 
chronologically around the space, 
through American Impressionists pieces 
by Childe Hassam and Edward Potthast 
to 20th Century paintings by Max 
Weber, Philip Evergood and Ralston 
Crawford. The center section will 
eventually house the Museum’s Learning 
Center, an area where visitors and guided 
tours can begin their study of the 
Museum, its collection and exhibitions. 
At this time a maquette of Jacques 
Lipchitz' Sieur Du Luth shares the gallery 
with the Tweed’s fine Caravaggesque 
painting of The Scourging of St. Blaise.
Funds for the renovation of these 
spaces came from the University of 
Minnesota, the Alice Tweed Tuohy 
Foundation and the Institute of Museum 
Services.
Joseph Christiaan Nicolie, Church 
of St. Jacques, Antwerp. 1830, oil 
on wood, 13 1/4 x 11".
Max Weber, Hairdressing, oil on canvas, 30x36".
March
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Tweed on Ice
Tweed Associates Advisory 
◄ Council ◄
Champagne and chocolate once again! 
This mid-winter celebration at the Tweed 
will be held on Friday. February 10. from 
7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Tweed on Ice will feature the 
exhibition Eight McKnight Artists, 
delicious chocolate desserts with 
champagne, and harpist Georganne 
Hunter. Hosts for the evening are Tweed 
members Arthur and Lillian Usan and 
Chuck and Judy Babst. The cost for 
members will be $2.00, non-members 
$3.00 and free for new members that 
evening. This event is sponsored by the 
Special Events and Membership 
committees, volunteer services of the 
Tweed Museum.
the 
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A new membership organization is 
taking shape at the Tweed Museum. 
Tweed Associates, an organization for all 
members of the Museum, will provide a 
structure for members to volunteer at 
the Museum and to be represented on 
the Tweed Associates Advisory Council.
The Advisory Council will be 
composed of an executive committee — 
including a President, Co-Vice Presidents 
for Education, Co-Vice Presidents for 
Development and a Secretary — 
committee chairs, and the Tweed 
Museum staff. Katherine Watters will be 
the first president of the Tweed 
Associates, until general elections are 
held. The council will oversee the role of 
volunteers in the Museum.
There are presently over 75 members 
doing volunteer work at the Museum, on 
several committees including Museum 
Education, Information Center, Program, 
Collectors, museuMART, Art Rental, 
Membership, Special Events and 
Business. All committees need additional 
members. If you have an interest in any 
of these areas or would like additional 
information, call Tweed Associates 
President Katherine Watters at 724-9100 
or call the Museum at 726-8222.
Tweed Associates
The Tweed Museum is grateful to the 
following Tweed Associates for their new 
and renewed memberships during the 
months of November through January:
NEW MEMBERS
STUDENT/SENIOR 
Sung Won Choi 
Felicia Glidden 
Sandra Immerman
INDIVIDUAL/FAMILY 
Annette Atkins 
William Crokie 
Rick Fairchild 
Mara & Robert Hart 
Clayton Keller &
Susan Headley-Keller 
Mr. & Mrs. Ken Moran
RENEWED MEMBERS
STUDENT/SENIOR 
Paul E. Anderson 
Mrs. E.O. Baumgarten 
Mr. & Mrs. William
Coventry 
Muriel J. Cowan 
F.M. Douglass 
Laura Fredericks 
Mr. & Mrs. Frank Gillis 
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Jacobs 
Dorothy Jenkins
INDIVIDUAL/FAMILY 
Arthur & Mary Aufderheide 
Dorothy Becker 
Mark & Susan
Brenninkmeyer 
Mark & Mary Carlson 
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Carlson 
Allen & Rita Cohen 
Mr. & Mrs. Mel Cohen 
Tom & Mary Conklin 
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Core. Jr. 
Pat Dennis 
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Durst 
Mr. & Mrs. Ben Effinger 
Mr. & Mrs. Alfred France 
Mr. & Mrs. David Gibbens 
Mr. & Mrs. James Glazman 
Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Gullion 
Beverly J. Harries 
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Hedenberg 
Charles E. House
DONORS 
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur C.
Dreshfield 
Robert & Anna Gamble
PATRONS
Mr. & Mrs. Darryl Booker 
Marguerite Gilmore 
Illian & Manley Goldfine 
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Heller 
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Josephs
BENEFACTORS
Mr. & Mrs. Daryl McKinney
Dr. & Mrs. Mylon Morris
John Saxhaug
Mary Ellen Shehadeh
Albert & Olive Tezla
Duane & Barb Tourville
Harriet Viksna
Mona E. Johnson
Albert & Rose Ann Kane
Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Kaner
Hommey Kanter
Louise Klein
Roderic & Peggy Lavick
Elizabeth Varker 
Mr. & Mrs. H.E.
Westmoreland
Shirley Jamar
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kerrigan
Dr. & Mrs. John Leppi
Dr. & Mrs. Sherman Levenson
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Levey
Mrs. Paul Louisell
Jean Mars
Philip & Janet Meany
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Mundt
Mr. & Mrs. James Nichol 
Leonard Petersen 
Dr. & Mrs. William Portilla 
Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm Scott 
Mr. & Mrs. Nick Smith 
Virginia Sneve
William & Mary VanEvera 
Jeffrey Ware
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Ware 
Mr. & Mrs. Gwin Whitney 
Dr. & Mrs. David Wiltrout
Adu & Kamal Gindy 
Mrs. Jos Sellwood 
Mr. & Mrs. Hubert D. Wheeler
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Russell 
Tom & Lou Thompson 
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Usan 
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Zlonis
1989 . winter calendar . 1989
february march april
Mike Lynch. Moose Junction, 1988, lithograph.
Paul Manship, Group of Bears, 1939. bronze, 
33 1/2 x27x19". Collection Minnesota Museum of Art,
1 Theresa Beville
Student Exhibition to 2/5
7 Seitu Jones lecture / pm
Diane Aldrich
Student Exhibition to 2/5
10 TWEED ON ICE 7:30-9:30
13 Amber Waves of Grain to 4/2
Roy Strassberg Ceramics to 3/5 
lecture 1 pm
Three Portfolios to 4/2
14 Heidi Envall
Student Exhibition to 3/19
15 William Goodman lecture 1 pm
21 Perry Andrews
Graduate Exhibition to 3/26
28 Linda Helander
Graduate Exhibition to 4/2
4 Jayne HedemarkGraduate Exhibition to 4/9
5 Bela Petheo Lecture 10 am
11 Felicia Glidden
Student Exhibition to 4/16
12 Philip Meany Lecture 10 am
15 Annual Art Student Exhibition 
to 5/14
Maree Elfvin and Frank Bigbear 
to 5/14
18 Robert Farrell
Student Exhibition to 4/23
25 Mary Kay Lundstrom
Student Exhibition to 4/30
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Georgette and Tom Micheletti and Mary Lee and Michael Lalich welcomed guests to the Tweed Gala.
From the Director ◄
Museum Staff
Director Steven Klindt
Curator/Registrar Martin DeWitt
Public Relations Karen Helland
Museum
Technician Larry Gruenwald
Principal
Secretary Merlyn McMann
Principal
Secretary Kathy Sandstedt
Museum
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Museum
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Rickey Fairchild
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Museum Hours
Over a year in planning and preparation, the Tweed’s 1988 Gala was a party that 
will long be remembered. Called by one guest "the party of the decade." the Gala 
opened the new Sax Conservatory and wished the Museum a happy thirtieth birthday 
in grand and elegant style.
I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank the tireles workers who 
made the Gala possible. Without them and their energy and expertise, there would 
never have been the outpouring of community support for these important 
landmarks in the Tweed’s history.
First and foremost, thank you to the able co-chairs Florence Collins, Ellen 
Hedenberg and Kaye Stender. They are the best in town at what they do and the 
Tweed is fortunate to have their talents working for us. They did a superb job of 
coordinating activities and paying attention to every detail with skill, taste and 
elegance. I appreciate their hard work very much.
Thank you to Laura Budd and Lane Smith for organizing the pre-Gala hostess 
parties, to Mary Conklin and Mary Ellen Owens for handling the invitations, to Bea 
Levey and Rita Cohen for supervising all the printing and to Mary Lee Lalich and 
Georgette Micheletti for making sure all the reservations were recorded with great 
accuracy.
The publicizing of the event was handled expertly by Ann Donovan and Robin 
Seiler (who arranged for the great coverage in Town and Country magazine). Thank 
you also to Carolyn Russell who made arrangements for all the music at the Gala, 
including the special "Fanfare for Tweed." I also want to thank Mary Nash for her 
choice of food and beverages and the selection of our delicious dinner.
Chuck House and Beverly Goldfine, through their fundraising efforts, secured 
special patrons and guarantors whose contributions insured enough funds to purchase 
the George Morrison sculpture Totem to commemorate this most important piece of 
Tweed history. I thank them both very much for their valued assistance in this 
endeavor.
Even months after the Gala I still speak to people who remember the evening as 
one of great fun and celebration. I hope the committee was able to bask in the glow 
of everyone's good feelings and congratulations. Let me speak for the Tweed and the 
University in once again thanking these dedicated Gala committee members.
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There are two ways to get to the Tweed 
Museum. Either enter the University on 
Stadium Drive from St. Marie, park in lot 
G on immediate right and use 
Engineering Building entrance, or, enter 
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College Avenue, park in Lot A on left, 
and use Darland Administration Building 
entrance.
There is no admission charge although 
donations are welcome.
The Museum is barrier free.
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Steven Klindt