Tweed Collections - Americant Art

American Art

American art of the 19th and 20th centuries is also well
represented in the Tweed collection. Different stylistic
modes are expressed in landscape, genre, figurative,
and portrait painting. Recently, American art added to
the Tweed collection has focused on Summer Guest
Artists and artists who have taught and produced art
in Duluth.

Image of David Ericson's painting "Morning of Life"

David Ericson, American (Minnesota), 1869-1946
Morning of Life
Oil on canvas, 27 1/8 x 22 1/8
Portrait of artist's son at age three at a dock on Park Point in Duluth
Collection of the Tweed Museum of Art
University of Minnesota Duluth


American Art American art of the 19th and 20th centuries is also well represented in the Tweed collection. Different stylistic modes are expressed in landscape, genre, figurative, and portrait painting. Recently, American art added to the Tweed collection has focused on Summer Guest Artists and artists who have taught and produced art in Duluth. David Ericson, American (Minnesota), 1869-1946 Morning of Life Oil on canvas, 27 1/8 x 22 1/8 Portrait of artist's son at age three at a dock on Park Point in Duluth Collection of the Tweed Museum of Art University of Minnesota Duluth