FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
06/01/2015
Contacts:
Jack Kabrud, 612-870-1329, www.hennepinhistory.org
Diana Houston, Hennepin
County Communications: 612-348-5130
News release
"Mary Gale Hobbs - a retrospective" is now on
display in the Hennepin Gallery. The many drawings, paintings and
etchings by Hobbs, who was largely responsible for creating an
art curriculum for the Minneapolis Public Schools that is still used
today, will be on display through June 29.
Born in Canada, Hobbs attended
the University of Toronto, and the Columbia Teachers College where she obtained
her degree in fine arts. She came to
Hennepin County in 1917 to teach art at the Northrup Collegiate School. She produced art and exhibited extensively
throughout the 1940s and 1950s at the Harriet Hanley Gallery, the
Kilbride-Bradley Gallery and at the Minneapolis School of Art. Her work is held in the collections of the
Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Minnesota Museum of Art and the Walker Art
Center. The Hennepin History Museum
holds in its collections many of Hobbs’ drawings, lithographs and watercolors.
The Hennepin Gallery is free and
open to the public Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the Hennepin
County Government Center, A-level, 300 S. Sixth St., Minneapolis. The exhibit
is sponsored by and a project of Hennepin County Communications.
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Look for more news on the Hennepin County website at www.hennepin.us/news.
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