Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition of Forty Masterpieces

About the exhibition

Minneapolis Institute of Art presented Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition of Forty Masterpieces in 1955. The museum marked its fortieth anniversary with a selection described as forty masterpieces. The linked objects include European and American paintings as well as one original print; the title’s total is not treated as a complete reconstructed checklist. Documented examples include Giovanni Battista Moroni’s Portrait of an Ecclesiastic (c. 1557; Oil on canvas) and Peter Paul Rubens’s The Union of England and Scotland (Charles I as the Prince of Wales) (1633–34; Oil on gessoed wood (oak) panel). The linked works form a partial checklist; the complete original catalogue remains under research.