“Something constantly on the minds of our readers” suggests Scott Hansen. From the New York Times

From Downsizing Boomers, a Flood of Donated Art

By JOHN HANC MARCH 4, 2017

ST. PAUL – On a tour of the climate-controlled vaults of the Minnesota Historical Society – where the bulk of the institution’s 6,000 works of art are stored – Brian Szott pointed to a pastoral painting of a farmhouse blanketed in snow.

Like the vast majority of the pieces in the society’s collection, all of which are about Minnesota or created by Minnesotans, this painting, completed in 1910, was donated and is now in storage on the lowest level of the society’s six-story museum and library.

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