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Frank (Chuck Close)

Frank by Chuck Close, 1969. The model for this painting was not Frank himself but rather an eight-by-ten-inch photograph of him. Since the late 1960s, Chuck Close’s method has been to start with a photographic print that he enlarges and overlays with a grid. In Copyright – Educational Use Permitted (InC-EDU).

Doryphoros

The Doryphoros, Roman, 120–50 BCE. The Doryphoros, or Spear Bearer, represents the perfect man, reflecting mathematically precise proportions. This is one of four surviving copies of the Greek original, now lost. Creative Commons Public Domain 1.0.

Yoruba head

Shrine head, between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries. This is a memorial portrait head from the royal city of Ife in western Nigeria, a center of power from 1100 to 1400. Ife artists made heads in bronze and terra-cotta that were part of complete figures or, as here, freestanding. Creative Commons Public Domain 1.0.

Olive Trees (Vincent Van Gogh)

Olive Trees, Vincent Van Gogh, 1889. The painting is one of fifteen canvases of olive trees that van Gogh executed between June and December of 1889. The vibrant oranges and yellows suggest that the picture dates to the autumn months. Creative Commons Public Domain 1.0.

Wu family reception hall

The Wu family reception hall, early seventeenth century. This three-bay reception hall was originally part of a traditional Suzhou-style courtyard house located in the east Dongting district near the present town of Dongshan. From the period rooms of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis. Creative Commons Public Domain 1.0.

Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia)

The original front façade of the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) at 2400 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis. Photo by Wikimedia Commons user McGhiever, June 3, 2018. Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0.

Inmate Publications at State Institutions

At the end of the nineteenth century, inmates at the Minnesota State Prison in Stillwater began publishing a newsletter written and edited by fellow prisoners. For the first time in US history, inmates at a state institution created a regular periodical that was fully their own at every level of production. They used it to discuss news, share their literary and artistic works, and organize for institutional change. Called the Prison Mirror, the newsletter served as a model for similar publications produced by inmates at nearly all of Minnesota’s state hospitals, correctional facilities, and state schools.