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Joseph Stella, “Red Lily,” 1944, crayon, colored pencil and graphite with scraping on paper, collection of Joseph and Deborah Goldyne.

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Jean Clouet, “Portrait of a Young Girl,” circa 1520, black and red chalk on paper, collection of Joseph and Deborah Goldyne.

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MIA MINNEAPOLIS MASTER DRAWINGS GOLDYNE ‘JUDGING BY APPEARANCE’ w/2 cuts

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MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. — Over the course of nearly four decades, Joseph and Deborah Goldyne have developed one of the largest and most diverse private collections of master drawings in the United States. Opening February 10 at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), “Judging by Appearance: Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph and Deborah Goldyne,” marks the first public tour showing selections from the Goldyne collection and is on view through April 29.

The exhibit presents 100 drawings that range from Old Masters, such as Guercino, Rembrandt, Van Dyck and Piranesi, to Nineteenth Century artists such as Turner, Corot, Millet, Degas and Pissarro. The Twentieth Century selections include works by Matisse, Morandi, Mondrian, Gorky and Ruscha. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco organized the exhibition.

The Goldyne collection is noteworthy for its chronological breadth as it is rare that a single private collection contains both old masterworks and contemporary pieces. For the Goldynes, there are no minor artists, only minor drawings.

Their collection comprises works by both illustrious and more obscure names from the annals of art history; the one aspect that unites them is quality.

The collection is also significant because it is informed by Joseph Goldyne’s work as an artist in his own right. His work spans a variety of media, from monoprints to oil paintings, and can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.; and the New York Public Library.

The exhibition is divided into 13 sections, including portraits, landscapes and abstraction, to focus on the Goldynes’ collecting interests. The selection spans works from the Italian and Northern Renaissance, including those by Bernardino Pinturicchio and Jean Clouet, to contemporary works by Ed Ruscha and Joseph Cornell.

Highlights include Edgar Degas’s “Laura Bellelli,” circa 1858–1859; Camille Pissarro’s “The Road to Ennery, near Pointoise,” 1874; Arshile Gorky’s “Drawing for Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia,” 1923; and Gustav Klimt’s “Kneeling Woman,” circa 1912–1913.

On Sunday, February 25, at 2 pm, Joseph Goldyne will share his perspectives on collecting and living with these drawings. This lecture is free and open to the public.

The catalog Judging by Appearance: Master Drawings from the Collection of Joseph and Deborah Goldyne is being published in conjunction with the exhibition.

The museum is at 2400 Third Avenue South. For more information, www.artsmia.org or 612-870-3131.