Paintings from the Berlin Museums Exhibited in Co-operation with The Department of The Army

Minneapolis was the sixth stop on the US Army’s nationwide tour of paintings recovered from Berlin’s Kaiser Friedrich Museum, which ran at the Minneapolis Institute of Art from November 2 to 17, 1948. The institute hosted one Vermeer: “Woman with a Pearl Necklace,” catalogued as no. 138 in the tour catalogue and listed under the title “Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace.“

The Minneapolis Institute of Art, housed in a McKim, Mead & White neoclassical building that opened in 1915, was one of the leading encyclopedic museums in the American Midwest and a natural anchor for this once-in-a-generation display of Old Masters from the occupied German capital.