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Ruth Duckworth, Modernist Sculptor
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
About the Exhibition


This exhibition explores the full range of Duckworth's remarkable creative life, featuring approximately 85 ceramic sculptures, along with original artist's maquettes and photographs of monumental site-specific sculptures.

Ruth Duckworth, 86, is internationally known as one of the leading figures in ceramic arts. This exhibition examines almost fifty years of the artist's achievements in all media, including recent bronze sculptures and ceramic wall murals, and early bronze castings and stone carvings that have never before been exhibited.

A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.


This exhibition is organized by curators Thea Burger and Jo Lauria for Art Options Foundation.

The exhibition and related programs are sponsored by Regis Foundation and Haworth Marketing & Media.

About the Exhibition  Ruth in her studio, among a grouping of her figurative forms in their bisque state, 2004.
About the Exhibition  Untitled [sphere and blade], porcelain, 2001.