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Purity
Rita Tate
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South Dakota Artist
Series: Rita Tate
December 22, 2009 - June 1, 2010
Meet the Artist: *Friday, March 19 at 10:00 a.m.
Public Reception: *Friday, March 19
Time: 4:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Artist Presentation: 5:30 p.m.
* Change in date for
Public Reception
Rita Tate's impeccable
style has made her one of South Dakota's most admired artists. This
native South Dakotan possesses a unique ability to capture the
spirit of life in her pencil drawings and paintings. Tate's artwork
is displayed in private collections across the United States and in
Europe, including an original painting hanging in the SD Governor's
Mansion. Her work has been featured on the covers of magazines such
as
Inside International and Arabian Horse World.
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Okiya (Courting)
Oscar Howe |
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Oscar Howe Exhibit
September 11, 2009 - April 24, 2010Howe, a Dakota from
the Yanktonai tribe, was born at Joe Creek on the Crow Creek
Reservation in South Dakota. He was known as Mazuha Hokshina,
or Trader Boy, to his people. Howe rose from poverty and
overcame illness to become an internationally respected
artist and teacher.
After graduating from Pierre Indian Boarding School, Howe
enrolled in the Santa Fe Indian School's art program. While there he
was encouraged by his instructor, Dorothy Dunn, to take pride in his
cultural heritage by painting scenes from everyday life, history,
and legends of his tribe. Howe ultimately developed his own unique
style of utilizing lines (linear, rectilinear, and
curvilinear), which gave a dynamic, fluid movement to his
paintings. Howe faced a strong resistance to his work
because it was modern. In 1958, Howe's work was rejected by
the annual Philbrook juried Indian art competition in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, as "non-Indian." In protest the artist asked: "Are
to be held back forever with one phase of Indian painting
that is the most common way? Are we to be herded like a
bunch of sheep, with no right for individualism, dictated to
as the Indian has always been, put on reservations and
treated like a child and only the White Man knows what is
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Applied Art of Embroidery (Marghab
Linens)
March 31, 2009 - January 17, 2010
Marghab
Linens were made on the island of Madeira from 1933 - 1980. The
designs featured in this exhibit were created by both Emile and Vera Way
Marghab and are considered to have been the finest designs created in
Madeiran embroidery.
The Marghab Linens are an example of how quality
materials and expert skills, when combined, produce beautiful yet
functional works of art.
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Sunshine and Shadow
circa 1930 to 1950 |
The Collector's Eye: Amish Quilts from the
International Quilt Study Center
September 4, 2009 - April 18, 2010
The collection is on loan from the
International Quilt Study Center located on campus of the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln and features quilts from three distinct Amish
regions; Lancaster County and Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, as well
as various Amish communities throughout Ohio and surrounding Midwest
states.
"This exhibit provides a wonderful opportunity to examine these
functional pieces as works of art with glorious color combinations
and interesting geometric patterns," says Harriet Swedlund, a former
SDSU professor with expertise in textiles and design.
The quilts of each Midwest region
are easily recognized by their colors, patterns, and aesthetics.
Classic Lancaster County quilts are composed largely of fine wools.
Their unique designs are simple, with flat planes of deep, rich
colors. The quilts of Mifflin County are made with cotton, rayon,
and wool, and are composed of more intricate designs, featuring
pink, yellow, and green accents. Many Ohio quiltmakers use black as
a background, a unique choice among American quiltmakers. Brilliant
pink, yellow, and lavender colors provide a vivid contrast against
the black background.
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Dakota 002: Wait, Weight
Phillip Michael Hook
Gerry Punt |
South Dakota Artist
Series: Phillip Michael Hook & Gerry Punt
January 14, 2010 - April 1, 2010
Meet the Artists: *Friday, March 19 at 10:00 a.m.
Public Reception: *Friday, March 19
Time: 4:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Artist Presentation: 5:30 p.m.
* Change in date for
Public Reception
Phillip Michael Hook's
subject matter derives from his love of the unseen world of
microscopic imagery. "I've allowed my research of cellular and
molecular biology to influence
my art making in order to invent imagery."
Gerry Punt currently
teaches ceramics classes at Augustana College. "Many of my recent
vessels were inspired by the attempted demolition of the Zip Feed
Tower. I wondered what is the big deal? Many issues are hard to look
directly in the face. I'm trying to fabricate soft symbols that
invite questions."
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Window Seat
Dale Bandel
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Dale Bandel: Centaurs and Flappers
August 18 - December 13, 2009
Reception: September 11, 4:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Artist Presentation: 5:30 p.m.
The move from Iowa to a wooded valley
in South Dakota was the beginning of Dale's interest in sculpting
wood. His sculptures have gradually moved towards metal-leafed wood,
sometimes mixed with other materials.
In 2006 Dale worked at
redeveloping his painting style and has produced mixed media
paintings of metal leaf, acrylics, and oil on canvas.
According to Dale, "I find it very
difficult to describe my art in words. Words tend to fail me, since
I normally express my emotions and ideas visually."
"I'm predominately a figure artist because of my interest in
human interaction. The figures in my paintings draw the viewer in,
causing them to react intellectually or purely with emotion. I hear
statements like 'I wish...', 'I think...', or 'I feel...', when
people stand before the artworks. It's when I know I've accomplished
what I consider most important in creating art, an intimate
connection between the viewer and the work. My interest in Greek
myth also has to do with human interaction. These stories try to
describe reaction to each other, the world around them, and to the
unexplainable. They are timeless and can help us sort our thoughts
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Cactus
Carol Kamin |
Don't Fence Me In (Quilted
Wall Hangings)
September 30, 2009 - January 3, 2010
When one thinks of quilts, one is apt
to think of beautiful bed coverings made by a cherished female
relative. Things have changed. Today, quilts are considered high art
and hang in the finest museums in the world. While still evoking
memories of hearth and home, today's art quilts are often quirky,
challenging, complex, painterly, and often employ techniques and
materials grandmother would never have considered.
This collection of art quilts evoke
the idea of the American West. It ranges from cows to cactus,
dinosaurs to sunflowers with everything in between. Sometimes witty,
sometimes ironic, these quilts will make the viewer enchanted and
concerned about changes to our landscape and our resources at the
same time.
The eighteen artists in "Don't Fence
Me In" are members of The Piecemakers and Quilt Explorations art
quilt critique groups and are from Denver, Colorado metro area. Each
of these groups has met for twenty years on a monthly basis to share
their artistic growth and eat good food and drink good wine.
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Moving Day
Brian Paulsen |
South Dakota Art Museum Collection: Works on
Paper
April 14, 2009 - September 20, 2009This
exhibit features thirty-eight pieces by thirty-six artists. Some
artists are known locally and regionally while others are nationally
known. These seldom seen pieces were chosen for this exhibit from
the South Dakota Art Museum's collection of over 1,000 works on
paper. All works in this exhibit were created on or of paper in
various types of mediums and techniques. There are paintings,
drawings, photographs, collages, cast paper and prints. The artwork
was acquired by the South Dakota Art Museum through donations by
artists, other individuals and organizations, and purchases through
miscellaneous funding sources including the Friend's Fund and South
Dakota Federation of Women's Clubs.
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13th Trophy of the Holocaust
Denton Lafferty, Oglala Lakota |
Contemporary Native American Art
from the Heritage Center of the Red Cloud Indian School
March 6, 2009 - August 29, 2009
Although the Heritage Center's
collection consists of work from throughout North America, this
exhibit features work by Native American artists from the upper
Midwest region of the United States. The exhibit will feature two
and three dimensional traditional and non-traditional pieces.
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Strato Bowl - Autumn
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South Dakota Artist Series:
James Van Nuys
April 14, 2009 - August 9, 2009
James Van Nuys has spent most of his life in
Rapid City, where he has a gallery of his work. He has been the art
columnist for the Rapid City Journal since 1999 and is the art director
for Black Hills FACES magazine.
"I've been exploring various aspects of realism, both in sculpture
and in painting, ever since I was a kid. I studied art in college,
am primarily self-taught, do a lot of reading about artists I admire
throughout the history of art and apply their ideas and techniques
to my own work." James is not concerned about maintaining a
consistent style and never limits himself in terms of media. His
work ranges from photo-realism through various impressionist
approaches to Turneresque near-abstraction. He works in oil,
watercolor, acrylic, gouache, pastel, numerous drawing and
print-making media, and bronze and uses the subject matters covering
the most of the traditional areas. "I'm best known for my large oil
landscapes, typically emphasizing cloud-filled skies, and usually
painted with a palette knife."
http://www.jamesvannuys.com/
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Untitled
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George Longfish, A Retrospective
April 21, 2009 - August 29, 2009
George Longfish is best known for his large,
vivid paintings of Native history incorporating stenciled text to
address contemporary Native American issues. His most recent
paintings deal with issues like the 'ownership' of cultural
information and the importance of passing this information on to
future generations.
In 2004, Longfish's work was featured in a solo
exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American
Indian.
Born in a small town in Ontario, Canada, George
Longfish was raised on the Cattaraugus (Seneca) Reservation outside
Buffalo, N.Y. At the age of 14, Longfish moved to Chicago where he
soon found the Chicago Art Institute and legendary earthworks
sculptor Robert Smithson. Longfish spent the next 30 years as
professor of Historical and Contemporary Native Arts and as director
of the C.N. Gorman Museum at the University of California-Davis.
Currently, he resides in Maine.
http://www-dateline.ucdavis.edu/101102/dl_breaktime.html
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Maria Brigida de Jesus
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Men & Women Behind Marghab
May 6, 2008 - March 22, 2009Marghab
Linens were hand embroidered on the Island of Madeira from 1933 to1980.
Emile and Vera Way Marghab founded the company and their exacting
standards set them apart from other companies producing hand-embroidered
linens.
The collaborative talents of many individuals
resulted in the beauty and ultimate success of Marghab Linens. Eighty to
ninety employees worked in the ‘factory’ as designers, pattern makers,
stampers, finishers, laundresses and clerks. Over two hundred women
embroidered the linens in their countryside homes. With nearly three
hundred employees working together, the company was able to achieve its
goal of creating, producing and selling the finest hand embroidered
linens.
The process of creating the Marghab linens took
the cooperation of 300 workers in the island of Madeira off the
coast of Morocco. Around 200 women embroidered from their
countryside homes and some 90 people worked as designers, pattern
makers, stampers, finishers, laundresses and clerks to prepare the
linen for embroidery and then to get them ready for shipment.
"Too often the creators or makers of objects
such as these are overlooked," said Lisa Scholten, curator of
collections at SDAM. "It was important to us to acknowledge, in this
exhibition, the many people who contributed to the beauty and
excellence of these hand-embroidered linens.". Photographic images
of the Marghab Madeira employees help visitors put a "name, face and
person to the process."
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Weaving Life
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Edwin Sulca: Peruvian
Weavings
December 12, 2008 - April 12, 2009
Artist Reception: December 12, 2008 / 4:30 to
7:00 pm
Artist Presentation: Approximately 5:30 pm
Edwin Sulca Lagos was born in Ayachucho, Peru
and is the 3rd generation of noted Peruvian textile artists.
Over the years his family has mastered the punto arwi - a pre-Incan
weaving technique. In 2000, a Canadian film company produced a
documentary about his life and work, "The Voices of Ayachucho,
Peru". This film documents the story of Sulca's native city
which bore the brunt of the violent conflict between the government
and the guerrilla movement, Shining Path during the 1970's and 80's. Sulca created a series of weavings that speak to the resurgence of
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Building Civilization
Brad Bachmeier
Stained Glass Brings a Family Back Together
Chris Vance
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Brad Bachmeier and Chris Vance
December 2, 2008 - April 6, 2009
Artist Reception: January 23, 2009 / 4:30 to
7:00 pm
Artist Presentation: Approximately 5:30 pm
Brad Bachmeier, ceramic artist and Art Department Chair at
Fargo ND North High School, has become nationally
recognized for his primitive and low-fired ceramic pottery and
sculpture. His pieces have earned him over 20 national grants
and best of show awards. Most recently, he was
recognized in the international ARTBUZZ publication (2008), was
featured on HGTV's "That's Clever" (2007) and also earned the
national NICHE award in wheel-thrown ceramics (2007).
http://www.bachmeierpottery.com/
Chris Vance creates large abstract paintings and three
dimensional forms using wood and acrylic to explore his artistic
vision. His paintings help him transform experiences to color
and line on canvas. Vance has exhibited in the Midwest,
including a recent one-man show at the Moberg Gallery in Des Moines,
IA.
http://www.chrisvanceart.com/
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Seven Brown Stones
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Roger Broer: Monoprints
January 20, 2009 - March 29, 2009
Artist Reception: January 23,
2009 / 4:30 to 7:00 pm Artist Presentation:
Approximately 5:30 pm Roger Broer, a
member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe grew up in Nebraska but now resides
in Hill City, South Dakota. Broer is probably best known for his
monoprints, but he is also a prolific painter and sculptor. He
combines realism, impressionism, surrealism and spontaneity. There
is also a mystical quality to his work.
http://www.lakotart.com/
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Doll Figure
Thorburn Tribal Art Collection
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Thorburn Tribal Art Collection & Buechel Photo
Collection:
An Imprint of Reservation Life
February 29, 2008 - February 22, 2009Eugene Buechel was born in Germany in 1874. After studying in Germany
and the Netherlands, he entered the Jesuit Order in 1897. He came to the
United States in 1900 and taught at the St. Francis Mission on the
Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota from 1902 to 1904. He completed his
clerical studies in St. Louis and was ordained to the priesthood in
1906. He returned to South Dakota in 1907 and served at Holy Rosary
Mission on the Pine Ridge Reservation and at St. Francis Mission until
his death in 1954.
Wambli Sapa or Black Eagle, as Father Buechel was named by the Lakota
people, learned the Lakota language, translated a number of church texts
into Lakota and created a file of almost 30,000 Lakota words which was
published in 1970 as a Lakota-English dictionary. Buechel also developed
one the finest collections of Lakota art. This collection is housed on
the Buechel Memorial Lakota Museum at St. Francis.
An avid photographer, Buechel left over 2,300 documented negatives
and prints of the Rosebud and Pine Ridge people to the St. Francis
Indian Mission. The collection represents one of the most important
historical and sociological records in the state. The images on exhibit
at the South Dakota Art Museum are from this collection. The images were
given to the South Dakota Art Museum in 1984 by St. Francis Mission in
memory of Les Helgeland, former editor of the Yankton Press and Dakotan,
friend of the Mission and trustee of the South Dakota Art Museum.
Frank Thorburn was born in 1902 in Brooklyn, New York. He
moved with his family to California in 1906 and graduated from
Sacramento High School in 1921. He attended college at Trinity College
in Hartford, Connecticut, and seminary at General Theological Seminary
in New York City. Rev Thorburn was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal
Church in 1931 at St. Elizabeth Church in Wakpala, SD. on the Standing
Rock Reservation. He married Abigail Case at the same church in 1932.
That year they moved from Cannon Ball, ND to the Pine Ridge Reservation
where they served many communities until 1952.
Most of the Thorburn collection of 74 pieces were gifts during their
over 20 years of serving on the reservations while others were purchased
from trading posts. Some pieces were given to the Thorburns in an
honoring ceremony in 1981. The collection was presented to the South
Dakota Art Museum in 1985.
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Fixing Fence, 1944
Harvey Dunn
oil on canvas
Gift of Helen Jensen Kerns
and Raymond Peterson
The South Dakota Art Museum Collection |
Harvey Dunn: Feminine Images
May 6, 2008 - February 15, 2009
Women had a very strong impact on Harvey Dunn's life, starting with his
mother Bersha, who recognized her son's talent and drew with him in the
evenings by the light of a kerosene lamp. She supported Harvey's wishes
to further his study of art.In addition, Dunn's first
art
instructor, Ada Caldwell, taught Harvey Dunn in 1901 and 1902, during
his time at South Dakota Agricultural College (SDSU). Caldwell opened
new vistas for the young artist and brought out artistic talent that he
didn't know he had. She encouraged him to further his art education by
attending the Chicago Institute of Art.
Dunn's paintings of women demonstrate his ability to render
the female form in various occupations and situations. Dunn's work
stressed the importance of capturing the strength, vulnerability, and
spirit of the feminine form.
Harvey
Dunn was born on a homestead near Manchester, SD in 1884. He became
known in the art world as an illustrator, war artist and teacher. To
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ADOPTED by the EAGLES, Paul Goble
Gift of Paul and Janet Goble |
Paul Goble: ADOPTED by the EAGLES
March 18, 2008 - March 15, 2009
Paul Goble is an award-winning author and illustrator of children's
books who is best known for his beautiful and accurate retelling of
Native Americans' ancient stories. Goble was born in England, moved to
the United States in 1977, and became a citizen in 1984. Goble has
worked as a furniture designer, industrial consultant, and art
instructor.
A Caldecott Medal was awarded for The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
(1978). Paul Goble's books have won praise from the American Library
Association, the National Council of Social Studies, the International
Reading Association, and the Children's Book Council. He has received
the Library of Congress' Children's Book of the Year award and his books
have been chosen by Reading Rainbow.
Goble makes his home in Rapid City, South Dakota. He has given a selection of his original illustrations from more than 30 of his children’s books to the South Dakota Art Museum. The South Dakota Art Museum holds this permanent collection of Paul Goble’s paintings depicting Native American legends and traditions, and his works will be displayed on a rotating basis at the Museum.
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Sunday Pines |
South Dakota Artist Series:
Jenny Braig
October 8, 2008 - January 11, 2009
Artist Reception: October 24, 2008
Artist Presentation: Approximately 5:30 pm
Jenny Braig was born and raised in Dubuque, IA. She is
passionate about painting the beautiful vistas in the Black Hills of
South Dakota where she lives. Nature is her largest source of
inspiration and offers an endless supply of visual ideas.
Braig hopes that when people see her work they have an emotional
experience as well as appreciate the color, line, and the luscious
textural quality of the paintings.
http://www.iowa-artisans-gallery.com/artists/2d/jennybraig.html
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Exhibitions
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•Native American Art
•Marghab Linens
•Paul Goble
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Stephen Knapp: Lightpaintings
September 18, 2008 - December 5, 2008Stephen Knapp
is internationally renowned for the
lightpaintings and large-scale public commissions in diverse
materials like glass, metal, stone, mosaic and ceramics. Knapp's
liberal arts education exposed him to many different disciplines and
emphasized the importance of research, establishing a foundation for
much of his work. For nearly a decade, he worked as a fine art
photographer. Knapp has used glass in many forms and began is
lightpaintings in 2002. In these works, the light that passes though
pieces of glass are simultaneously collected and dispersed on the
wall.
http://www.lightpaintings.com/
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Ground Equipment
Max on the Sax |
South Dakota Artist Series: Liz Bashore and
Bruce Preheim
July 22, 2008 - November 23, 2008
Artist Reception: October 24, 2008 4:30 to 7 pm
Artist Presentation: Approximately 5:30 pm
Liz Bashore's recent body of work is a contemporary look at
landmarks, culture, and symbols that identify the Midwest. Many of
her paintings start with inspiration drawn from relics of regional
design or local industry. The combination of symbolic objects and
figures makes visual her effort to link local history to the personal,
the everyday, and the creative. Bruce Preheim's
work centers on deep-seated concerns for humanity, compassion, and the
power and dignity of the individual within society. His numerous
portraits of friends, and strangers represent his attempt to honor the
individuality, strengths and eccentricities of the characters who
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Road and Sloughs in Last Light, 2007
Dorothy Morgan
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South Dakota Artist Series: Dorothy
Morgan
June 24, 2008 - September 28, 2008
Dorothy Morgan is a mid-career artist who is considered
one of the midwest's finest and most accomplished painters.
She began showing at the John Pence Gallery in San Francisco in
1987. Morgan has won a number of prizes and awards including
the American Artist Magazine's Golden Anniversary Competition.
Morgan's work is currently on tour with the Tacoma Art Museum's
"Lewis and Clark Territory" exhibition. Her paintings are
unmistakably distinctive. Dorothy captures the essence of the
South Dakota landscape through the use of luscious color and light.
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Let There Be Light
Fatih Benzer
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Fatih Benzer
April 15, 2008 - September 14, 2008
Fatih Benzer
Many
of Fatih Benzer's works are inspired by ancient mythologies, eastern
miniatures, whirling dervishes, geometry, architecture, and
minimalism. The main purpose of these works is to build a bridge
between East and West. Coming from Turkey, a country influenced by
Near Eastern and European cultures, Benzer brings multicultural
approaches to art in terms of various subjects and symbols. The
combination of various images and symbols from different cultures
played an important part in creation of the iconographic paintings.
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The Boy in Red
Jes Schlaikjer
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Jes Schlaikjer
August 22, 2007 -
March 2, 2008Schlaikjer
Born on the maiden voyage of
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse to the United States in1897, Jes
Schlaikjer grew up on a homestead in Tripp County, three miles north
of Carter, South Dakota. A 1916 graduate of Winner High School,
Schlaikjer, who had been a teenage railroad telegrapher, published
his first artwork in the Carter weekly newspaper. He joined the U.S.
Army Signal Corps when the country entered World War I, ending up in
Paris as the chief receiving operator at the Layfayette radio
station there. At war's end, Schlaikjer attended L'Ecole des
Nationale Beaux-Art in Lyons, France.
Upon returning to the United States,
Jes Schlaikjer studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating
in 1923. After leaving Chicago, he continued his studies with Harvey
Dunn, Robert Henri, a noted portrait artist, and Dean Cornwell, one
of Dunn's most famous students.
Schlaikjer's illustrations were featured in
several periodicals, including
American, American Legion Monthly, Red Book,
and Women's Home Companion. In the 1920s and 1930s he
also illustrated the covers for the pulp magazine Black Mask.
In addition he also received
national recognition for his painting. In 1926, he received the
first Hallgarten prize for The Pink Cameo, a portrait of his
wife, at the National Academy of Design Annual Exhibition in New
York. He also won the second Hallgarten prize in 1932 for his
painting The Little Ones. In 1928, he was the winner of the
first Altman prize for the best figure painting by an American-born
citizen for South Dakota Evening. Schlaikjer also exhibited
at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Corcoran in
Washington, D.C.
During WWII Schlaikjer was chosen to be a War Department
artist at the Pentagon. While there, he
designed war posters for the military and Red Cross. He also painted
portraits of military leaders including Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Douglas MacArthur, George S. Patton and many others. After his
wartime services he established a portrait studio in Washington,
D.C., where he died in 1982.
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Swedish Tine,
Greg Hesla
elm bentwood with elm root lacing
loaned by Greg Hesla
Wooden truck and horse trailer
made by Mel Eisenbraun of Sturgis.
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Folk
Arts
September 25, 2007 -
December 2, 2007Tree of
Life: South Dakota Woodworking Traditions
Wood is an amazingly
versatile material—readily available, easily workable with simple
tools, and able to take many forms. From tools to toys, furniture to
fiddles, objects made of wood have been created by the people of the
plains for generations. Lakota flutes and horse dance sticks,
Norwegian carving, Swedish bent-wood boxes, German-Russian willow
baskets, diamond willow canes, miniature farm equipment models and
oak furniture are just some of the wood crafts to be featured in
this exhibit. As trees are rooted in the earth, so are these
traditions rooted in the tribes, ethnic groups, families and
communities of South Dakota. They live on because of the efforts of
the dedicated artists and craftspeople who preserve them in the work
of their hands. “Tree of Life” is a project of the South Dakota Arts
Council, the South Dakota Art Museum, and South Dakotans for the
Arts with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Dates
South Dakota Art Museum,
Brookings: September 25-December 2, 2007
Adams Museum, Deadwood: January 10-February 29, 2008
Dacotah Prairie Museum, Aberdeen: March 21-May 9, 2008
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School of Fishes,
1982
Arman,
Armand P.
Welded steel and vise grip
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 Tools in Motion
August 1, 2007 - October 28, 2007
Tools in Motion
features witty and light-hearted works based on familiar forms—
hammers, saws and wrenches—transformed into works of great
imaginative power using materials including paint, wood, glass,
metal, paper, and stone. The artists in the exhibition range from
emerging to world renowned, including notable figures such as Arman,
Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg and Jacob Lawrence.
Spanning a wide range of styles and themes, the collection and exhibition honor the dignity of everyday tools, where form and
function are totally linked.
The abundance of bright colors and
vivid textures are enjoyable for visitors of all ages.
The works for
Tools
in Motion were selected
from a collection originally owned by the late hardware-industry
pioneer John Hechinger Sr., whose father started the Hechinger
hardware chain in 1911. Hechinger began collecting contemporary
art related to tools to display around the company’s headquarters to
inspire his employees. Early on, Hechinger discovered that the
collection’s distinct focus strikes a rich and diverse vein in
modern art.
http://www.artsandartists.org/exh.detail.php?exhID=49
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Fixing Fence, 1944
Harvey Dunn
oil on canvas
Gift of Helen Jensen Kerns
and Raymond Peterson
The South Dakota Art Museum Collection
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Harvey Dunn: Seasons
October 23, 2007 - April 27, 2008
Harvey
Dunn was born on a homestead near Manchester, SD in 1884. He became
known in the art world as an illustrator, war artist and teacher. To
most South Dakotans he is known for his prairie landscapes.
Although Harvey left South Dakota in 1902 to further his art training
and his career as an illustrator, he never forgot the land and the
people of his youth. In his prairie paintings as in his illustrations,
Dunn was able to capture a sense of time and place in his paintings.
Through his use of color, light and shadows he captured the essence and
atmosphere of the seasons.
This exhibit includes Harvey Dunn’s paintings from the South Dakota Art
Museum’s collection that best illustrate the seasonal changes, from the
new growth in spring, the heat of the summer, harvest time in the fall
and the bitter cold of the winter. Dunn had the
ability to capture on canvas the wind, rain, dust and snow storms of the
prairie. He was able to depict the large cumulous clouds on a beautiful
summer’s day in “Prairie is My Garden” as well as the dark ominous
clouds in “Storm Front.” He revealed the effects the land and
weather had on the prairie inhabitants, both man and beast. Most of his
paintings depict the season for planting, the seasons of growth and
maturity and the season of harvesting. Some of his landscapes solely
depict the beauty of the trees and their changing colors in the fall.
Harvey Dunn often visited the land of his birth and where he grew to
manhood during the summer months. In 1950 he brought his paintings
home, exhibited 42 paintings during the Old Settlers’ Day celebrations
in De Smet, SD. After the celebration Dunn generously donated the
majority of these paintings to the South Dakota State College, now South
Dakota State University. Two years later, in the fall of 1952, Harvey
Dunn died at the age of 68.
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Slip-Wear,
2000
Warren Rosser
acrylic on canvas
Gift of Warren Rosser
The South Dakota Art Museum Collection
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South Dakota Art Museum Collection
August 14, 2007 - September 16, 2007
This exhibit features a vast arrangement of paintings
and wooden sculptures from such artists as Alice Berry, James
Eisentrager, Paul Fundingsland, Signe Stuart, John Peters, Warren
Rosser, and Tom Rickers.
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Luxurious Linens
September 18, 2007 - April 27, 2008
The richness and superiority in quality of Marghab
Linens sets them apart from other hand embroidered linens. Equal to the
quality of the fine linens is the sense of luxury they exude. The luxury
of these beautifully hand embroidered linens is evident in the
impression of distinction. Hand embroidered linens were created for the
customer with taste and discrimination. As a result, the Marghab owner
was able to take part in something exclusive and superior. The high
standards established by Marghab along with the relentless adherence to
their ideals set the company apart from others in the embroidery
business.
Marghab Linens were made on the Island of Madeira from 1933-1980. Emile
Marghab (Syria) and Vera Way Marghab (Watertown, SD) founded the
company. Each linen was meticulously hand embroidered by skilled
artisans on the finest fabrics from Ireland and Switzerland. The designs
were created by both Emile and Vera and are considered to have been the
finest designs created in Madeiran embroidery.
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Catalyst
Bryan Holland
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Bryan Holland
April 24, 2007 - August 12, 2007
Bryan Holland is currently working as a full-time artist. From 2001
to 2006, Bryan was an assistant professor of art at the University of
Sioux Falls, where he taught a variety of studio and graphic design art
courses. He has a graduate degree in painting from the University of
South Dakota and a B.A. in Art
from the University of Sioux Falls / Augustana College. Prior to that, he worked as a graphic artist for
about ten years, having received a two-year technical college degree in
Minnesota.
Solo exhibits have included Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls, SD;
Sioux City Art Center in Sioux City, IA; and the Dahl Fine Arts Center
in Rapid City, SD. Juried or group shows include Blanden Memorial Art
Museum in Fort Dodge, IA; Emporia State University in Emporia, KS; and
the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, NE. Holland also has a work in an
Exhibits USA traveling exhibit, By any means: Works from the National
Drawing Invitationals, and has had his work published in the
national magazine New American Paintings (Western States division, issue
#18 - October 1998).
http://www.bryanholland.com/
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