South Dakota Art History (original) (raw)

South Dakota Art History

with an emphasis on representational art

Introduction

This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "South Dakota Art History." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to the articles and essays.

Following the links to _Resource Library_articles and essays are a listing of museums in the state which have provided materials to Resource Library for this or any other topic.

Listed after museums are links to _online_resources outside the TFAO website. Following these resources is information about offline resources including DVDs, paper-printed books, journals and articles. Our goal is to present complete knowledge relating to this section of Topics in American Art.

We recommend that researchers always search within Resource Library for additional material. Please see TFAO's pageHow to research topics not listed for more information.

(above: Free homes, government lands, and cheap deeded lands in South Dakota, 1890, Library of Congress. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Resource Libraryessays listed by author name in alphabetical order, followed by articles:

Resource Library contains no articles or essays specific to the state.

We recommend that researchers always search within Resource Library for additional material. Please see TFAO's pageHow to research topics not listed for more information.

Museums and other non-profit sources of Resource Library articles and essays:

Ritz Gallery at South Dakota State University

South Dakota Art Museum

Trout Gallery at Dikinson College

Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science Visual Arts Center

(above: Gutzon Borglum and Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, 1927 to 1941. Photo courtesy of National Park Service Image Gallery)

Other online information:

Artists from South Dakota, from Wikipedia. Accessed August, 2015.

The Cathy and Ken Vogele Collection is a 2020 exhibit at the South Dakota Art Museum which says: "The Vogeles have played an important role in cultivating American Indian arts and crafts in the state. Beyond building a substantial private collection, they have shared the wisdom of their connoisseurship as Board members for the South Dakota Art Museum and Northern Plains Tribal Arts Show." Accessed 3/21

Culture of South Dakota; from Wikipedia. Accessed August, 2015.

Darkness and Light: The Artistic Journey of Carl Grupp is a 2020 exhibit at the Eide-Dalrymple Gallery which says: " Carl Grupp (1939-2019) was a professor at Augustana from 1969 until 2004. He also founded the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery and, through the decades, built a permanent art collection, which is now named for him." Accessed 11/20

Harvey Dunn: Cotton Candy Skies is a 2018 exhibit at the South Dakota Art Museum which says: "This exhibition highlights Harvey Dunn's distinctive use of cotton candy colored pinks and blues in his depictions of skies, especially within in his South Dakota prairie paintings. Dunn's iconic "The Prairie is My Garden" is on display along with other familiar works as well as less often displayed Dunn works." Accessed 3/18

Harvey Dunn: Fences, Cows, Plows & Oxen is a 2019 exhibit at the South Dakota Art Museum which says: "Present in nearly half of Dunn works in our collection, fences, cows, plows and oxen were a common feature of the subsistence lifestyle that South Dakota's settlers relied on in the pioneering era of Dunn's youth. This exhibition celebrates these prairie paintings and the roots of South Dakota's agricultural heritage." Accessed 4/19

_Harvey Dunn: Imagining Other_s is a 2019 exhibit at the South Dakota Art Museum which says: "This exhibition celebrates Dunn's desire to fully and deeply render truths about humanity. His instruction to students is a fitting lesson: "Feel your picture, get into it, be the character you are painting. Feel his joys, his sorrows, think him, put yourself in his shoes."" Accessed 1/20

Lakota Voices - Collection Highlights from the Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School is a 2017 exhibit at the Haggerty Museum of Art which says: "The richness and diversity of Lakota culture is celebrated in this exhibition drawn from the collection of The Heritage Center at Red Cloud Indian School on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation." Accessed 8/18

Last of the Lakota Dream Catchers: The Art of Roger Broer & Richard Red Owl is a 2022 exhibit at the Brinton Museum which says: "Contemporary American Indian artist Richard Red Owl was born in 1940 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. He is a member of the Oglala Sioux Nation and is self-taught as an artist, painter and drum maker. Lakota artist Roger Broer born in 1945 lives and works in Hill City, South Dakota. Broer prefers a "modified form of monotype using oil paints" to create richly stylized images portraying human figures. Both artists' works convey an intensive introspective creativity while also focusing on harmony of race." Accessed 11/22

Seeing Dakota: Collisions and Confluences - Sheil Agee and Ann Pederson is a 2018 exhibit at the Eide-Dalrymple Gallery which says: "The exhibition consists of large, door-size panels of oil paintings with large-scale panels of writings. Arranged as a double-layered, radiating quadrant in the center of the gallery, the installation produces four visual "moments": 1. Making Sense of Dakota through the four elements (earth, wind, fire, water) and the five senses; 2. Imagining Icons of the Prairie to find the extraordinary within the ordinary; 3. Following Traces and Imprints to track the trauma and resilience of communities on the Prairie; and 4. Watching and Wandering with the Spirit(s), to call mindfulness to the Spirit(s) of the Dakotas." Also see website for exhibition. Accessed 12/18

South Dakota State Capitol - from National Park Service. Accessed August, 2015.

South Dakota State Capitol - from South Dakota Bureau of Administration. Accessed August, 2015.

"Ten 'Must See' South Dakota Paintings," by John Andrews, from January/February 2009 issue of South Dakota Magazine. Accessed August, 2015.

Vitreous Visions: The Glass Art of Angela Babby is a 2022 exhibit at the Brinton Museum which says: "Babby describes the process of creating her glass art as cycles of three different mediums: stained glass, vitreous enameling and tile work. She says her Lakota ancestry and the mysterious nature of glass inspires her fascination with making art. Angela's finished glass works are truly a tour de force of the glass process." Accessed 11/22

Books, listed by year of publication, with most recently published book listed first:

Illustrated History of the Arts in South Dakota, by Arthur R. Huseboe. 396 pages. Publisher: Center for Western Studies (November 1, 1989). ISBN-10: 0931170443. ISBN-13: 978-093117044

Art and artists in South Dakota (1701-1951), by Mike Sougstad. 1984

Rock Art of Western South Dakota, By James D. Keyser, Linea Sundstrom. Published by South Dakota Archaeological Society, 1984. 142 pages

The Art of South Dakota. Brookings: South Dakota Memorial Art Center, South Dakota State University, 1974. Essay by Joseph Stuart.

_Index of South Dakota Artists,_By Joseph Stuart, [Ed.]. Published by South Dakota State University. 1974.

My story of Art in the Black Hills, By Mar Gretta Cocking. Published by s.n, 1965

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TFAO catalogues:

TFAO's Distinguished Artists catalogue provides online access to biographical information for artists associated with this state. Also, Search Resource Library for online articles and essays concerning both individual artists associated with this state's history and the history of art centers and museums in this state. _Resource Library_articles and essays devoted to individual artists and institutions are not listed on this page.

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