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Robert Koehler-Minneapolis, Minnesota Artist
Robert Koehler was a German born artist who moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1854. Koehler was primarily known for his portraits, landscapes, genre scenes and was also a highly accomplished...
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Knute Heldner: A Pioneer Painter of American Social Realism
Knute Heldner: Social Realist Painter Knute Heldner was an artist who was born in Sweden and came to the United States in the early 20th century. He began working as a miner and lumberjack in northern...
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The Art of Painting Appraisals: Minneapolis, Minnesota Paintings Appraisers
Appraising Art How much is my painting worth? This is one of the most common questions that we get asked. Unfortunately, the answer is never easy or immediate. With television shows like Antiques...
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Selling Paintings in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota
Selling Old Paintings in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota Often times people will have acquired an old painting at some point in their lives. You may have inherited the painting, found it at an...
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Minnesota Sculptor Paul Granlund
Sculptor Paul Granlund was a Minnesota native and the son of a Lutheran pastor. Following academics in Minnesota and Michigan, he was a Guggenheim Fellow in Rome, working under the professional mold...
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The Art and Sculpture of Minnesota Artist George Morrison
George Morrison (1919-2000) was a Native American, Chippewa artist who grew up along the shores of Lake Superior in Chippewa City, Minnesota. Though he spent almost 3 decades in New York, he called...
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Minnesota Artist Cameron Booth: Uniting Cubism and Abstract Expressionism
American artist Cameron Booth is recognized for sensitivity to his surroundings and a deliberate approach to composition. His paintings began with a theory before action, experimenting and molding his...
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Wanda Gag and Clara Mairs: First Generation Minnesota Women Artists
The first celebrated generation of women artists from Minnesota includes many of the women artists that we, at Hiro Fine Art, buy and sell, including Clara Mairs and Wanda Gag. What these women, along...
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Minneapolis Through the Art of Alexis Jean Fournier
Minneapolis residents are have come to love the iconic Stone Arch Bridge overlooking the St. Anthony Falls, drive past Lowry Hill and relax on their stroll around Lake Harriet. These landmarks have...
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Hugh Kappel and the New Center of the Art World
Have you ever heard of Hugh Kappel? Unless you have made a visit to the Hiro gallery, you may not be familiar with his work, justifiably for the sake of his absence in surveys of art history. As New...
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The Importance of Conserving Paintings: Restoration and Conservation in...
Embracing the knowledge and practices of both art and science, conservationists meticulously work to recover art to an original or near-original state. Conservation and restoration of paintings is...
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The Structure of Nature in the Non-literal Art of Charles Biederman
In the tradition of painting, artists had recorded or imitated the beauty of nature upon canvas and board. With the invention of photography, the physical world could become an image in a near instant....
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The Rapid Painting Agility of Emile Gruppé
Emile Gruppé is highly respected by critics, honored and prolific as a plein air painter and the son of Charles Paul Gruppé. He is well-known for Impressionistic paintings of the landscape and marine...
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Milton Avery: Simple Subjects in Complex Colors
Thought of as the American Matisse, Milton Avery built a legacy that was recognized during his life by other artists and the modern art community. Why then did he not acquire much profit from his work,...
View ArticleArtist Allan Houser and the Start of Experimental Indigenous Art
Artist Allan Houser and the Start of Experimental Indigenous Art The Studio was the first... The post Artist Allan Houser and the Start of Experimental Indigenous Art appeared first on Hiro Fine Art.
View ArticleMinnesota Natives and Immigrant Artists
Early Minnesota Artists Minnesota Natives and Immigrant Artists The humble beginnings of art in Minnesota... The post Minnesota Natives and Immigrant Artists appeared first on Hiro Fine Art.
View ArticleMinnehaha Falls and Romantic Landscape Painting in America
Originally known as Brown’s Falls, Minnehaha Falls became famous in the mid nineteenth-century. Inspired by... The post Minnehaha Falls and Romantic Landscape Painting in America appeared first on Hiro...
View ArticleFritz Scholder’s Transformation of the American Indian in Contemporary Art
Fritz Scholder was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota in 1937. He was raised in Wahpeton, North... The post Fritz Scholder’s Transformation of the American Indian in Contemporary Art appeared first on...
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Minneapolis Through the Art of Alexis Jean Fournier
The Art of Alexis Jean Fournier Minneapolis residents are have come to love the iconic Stone Arch Bridge overlooking the St. Anthony Falls, drive past Lowry Hill and relax on their stroll around Lake...
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Hugh Kappel and the New Center of the Art World
Artist Hugh Kappel American Expressionism Have you ever heard of the artist Hugh Kappel? Unless you have made a visit to the Hiro gallery, you may not be familiar with his work, justifiably for the...
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