Cass Gilbert Portraits on Exhibit

Portraits of Cass and Julia Tappen Finch Gilbert are on exhibit at the Minnesota State Capitol as part of the Capitol Centennial Celebration. These portraits are on loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Emily Finch Gilbert through Julia Post Bastedo, executor.

Portrait of Cass Gilbert by Ernest L. Ipsen, 1927Cass Gilbert (1859-1934)
Ernest L. Ipsen, portraitist
1927
Oil on canvas



Portrait of Mrs. Julia Tappen Finch Gilbert (1862-1952) Julia Tappen Finch Gilbert (1862-1952)
Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope, portraitist
1926
Oil on canvas


The Minnesota Historical Society is grateful to the Smithsonian American Art Museum for lending these portraits in commemoration of the Minnesota State Capitol Centennial in 2005.

The exhibition of these portraits was made possible by a generous grant from the Cass Gilbert Society of St. Paul