Portrait of Mrs. Grace Morrison Kimball

Grace Morrison Kimball (c. 1847–1907) was the daughter of Dorilus Morrison (1814–97), the first mayor of the city of Minneapolis, and Harriet Putnam Whitmore (1821–1880). The family owned of an imposing home called Villa Rosa. Her brother, Clinton Morrison (1842–1913), donated the land on which the house stood to the Society of Fine Arts in 1911, to be used for an art museum—the Minneapolis Institute of Art.