Dorothea Lau, "Rainy Day at Market" (1942). Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society.
Description
Between 1935 and 1943, the Ah-Gwah-Ching (“out of doors” in Ojibwe) sanitarium housed “more the 160 items including prints, watercolors, oils and woodcarvings by such artists as Bob Brown, Henry Bukowski, Reathel Keppen, Dorothea Lau, Alexander Oja and Bennet Swanson,” all created through the Works Progress Administration (WPA). When the sanitarium, which opened in 1907 to treat tuberculosis, closed in 2008, the Minnesota Historical Society became the steward of many of these artworks. They now comprise the Ah-Gwah-Ching Archive, much of which can be viewed through this page of the Minnesota Historical Society.
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Mac LeSeur, “Viaduct” (1942). Courtest Minnesota Historical Society.
Mac LeSeur, "Viaduct" (1942). Courtest Minnesota Historical Society.
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Alexander Oja, “Snowscape.” Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society.
Alexander Oja, "Snowscape." Courtesy Minnesota Historical Society.
Source notes
https://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/61/v61i02front.pdf
Project originally submitted by Natalie Henegan on March 22, 2017.
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