The George Peter Tweed Memorial Collection was the museum's founding gift when Alice Tweed Touhy donated over 475 works of European and American art to the University of Minnesota Duluth between 1950 and 1973. The collection was noted for its works by artists of the French Barbizon School including rural scenes by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Charles Jacque, Jean-François Millet, and Theodore Rousseau. The Tweed’s gift offers today’s visitors access to a collection of 16th- to 19th-century Austrian, British, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Swiss art.