Needlework picture, 1754. Mary King, Philadelphia; silk & metallic yarns and glass beads embroidered in satin on silk moire; photo by Gavin Ashworth, courtesy Winterthur

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- More than three hundred masterpieces from Henry Francis du Pont’s magnificent collection of American decorative arts will be on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) from February 18 through May 6, 2007. The first exhibition to travel in Winterthur’s history, An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont’s Winterthur Museum presents a selection of the museum’s rarest and most renowned objects, including furniture, textiles, paintings, works on paper, ceramics, glass, and metalwork, all made or used in America between 1640 and 1860. More than 449,000 visitors viewed An American Vision when it was initially presented at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in celebration of Winterthur’s 50th anniversary in 2002. The MIA is the first venue on its national tour outside of Washington, which includes the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, and the Atlanta History Center in Georgia. (courtesy www.Artdaily.org)

Magdalena Douw (Mrs. Harme Gansevoort) (detail), about 1740. John Heaten, Hudson River Valley, NY; oil on canvas; photo by Herb Crossan, courtesy Winterthur.