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Spring 4-1981

South Dakota Memorial Art Center News, April-May-June 1981

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Oscar Howe honored During the late 1950s and '60s Howe developed a style that had its roots in both traditional Oscar Howe of Vermillion has been awarded the and modern Euro-American philosophies. This Memorial Art Center Board of Trustees' seventh work brought him increasing attention and Artistic Achievement Citation for his "distinguished recognition, including the Waite Phillips careers in painting and teaching." The citation was Outstanding Indian Artist Trophy in 1966, and created by calligrapher Richard Edie, head of the appointment in 1971 by the State Department as South Dakota State University Art Department. cultural exchange lecturer to the Near East and South Asia. Howe was born on the Crow Creek in 1915, the son of George T. Howe and Ella Not Afraid of Bear. Oscar's Yanktonai Sioux April-May-June Events name is Mazuha Hokshina, or Trader Boy. After graduation as salutatorian in 1938 from the Indian School at Santa Fe, New Mexico, he taught at the Exhibitions Pierre Indian School, where he had been a student, Harvey Dunn from the Collection, and in 1940 was assigned to the South Dakota permanent. Artist's Project of the W.P.A. While on the project he painted murals for the Carnegie Library at Marghab Linens from the Collection, permanent. Mitchell and the Mobridge Municipal Auditorium. He served with the Army in North Africa, Italy, and Native American Arts from the Beatrice Medicine Germany during World War 11, and in Germany met and Ben Reifel Collections, permanent. Heidi Hampel. They married in 1947, and have a South Dakota Biennial V, March 8 - April 19. daughter, Inge Dawn. Howe earned degrees in art from Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell and American Prints from the Collection, April 5 - June the University of Oklahoma, and during 1953-57 28. taught at Pierre High School. He was appointed assistant professor and artist-in-residence at the Brooke Alexander: A Decade of Print Publishing, University of South Dakota in 1957. He retired as April 26 - May 31. professor in 1980. South Dakota Artists from the Collection, June 7 -August 9.

Thursday Evening Film Series

Mel Brooks' The Producers, April 2, 7:30 p.m. Alain Resnais' Providence, April 9, 7:30 p.m.

E lien Burstynand John Gi('lgud in Alain ./ Resnais' Providence, Oscar Howe at work in his Vermillion studio (John Whalen the April 9 Thursday photograph). Ev('ning Film /(),, oF& /4r - �11!' 1ti Touring Exhibitions Susan Hartenhoff, Gerald Kruse, Mark Lazarus, John McCarthy, Greg Painter, and Mickey Sellard of Art from the Red Cloud Indian School Collection, Brookings; Robert Aldern, James Cambronne, Veterans Memorial Hospital, Sioux Falls, March 25 Marilyn Fusfield, Carl Grupp, Daniel Hepner, John -May 1. Jastram, Jay Olson, and Mel Spinar of Sioux Falls; Stephen Andersen of Spearfish; John Banasiak of Dudeck Collection of Eastern Sioux and Ojibwa Art, Burbank; James Bryant of Huron; Irene Cordts of Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, March 31 - April Faulkton; Greg Haugen of Flandreau; Carol Hepper 30. of McLaughlin; Earlene Larson of Vermillion; Bob Myra Miller Paintings from the Collection, Day Miller of Pierre; Patricia Musil, John Peters, and County Museum, Webster, June 1 - 28. Edgar Russell of Rapid City; Tim Peterson of Aberdeen; and Raul Ponce de Leon of Deadwood. Oscar Howe Paintings from the Collection, Dacotah Prairie Museum, Aberdeen, April 2 - 28. Norman Geske, director of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Art Galleries, selected the South Dakota Photography '80, University of South exhibition and work by Robert Aldern, Carl Grupp, Dakota Art Galleries, Vermillion, April 6 - 29; Daniel Hepner, and Tim Peterson for purchase Veterans Memorial Hospital, Sioux Falls, May 28 awards. According to Geske, this exhibition is "a -June 26. demonstration of the variety and vitality which is present everywhere in the art of the Great Plains." WPA Prints from the Human Services Center Collection, Veterans Memorial Hospital, Sioux Falls, May 1 - 28

Hotel Du Nord, a silkscreen by Joseph Cornell (1903-72) in the exhibition, Brooke Alexander A Decade of Print Publishing.

Dakota Bouquet, drawing by Carl Grupp of Sioux Falls, purchased Brooke Alexander: A Decade of Print from the South Dakota Biennial V exhibition Publishing

South Dakota Biennial V Showing April 26 - May 31, this exhibition was organized by John Arthur of Boston University Art The fifth South Dakota Biennial, showing at the Callery and comes to the Center through E.D 0. Center March 9 - A'pril 19, includes work by Robert Comprehensive Exhibitions Service. 79 prints by 32 Alber, Don Boyd, Kay Cheever, Kurosh Chobadi, artists, pubI ished during 1968-78, are included. Josef Albers, Richard Artschwager, Jo Baer, Jack Beal, Docents at the Indianapolis Museum of Art during Billy Al Bengston.John Clem Clarke, Joseph Cornell, March 25-27. Among the programs presented were Susan Crile, Janet Fish, Sondra Freckelton, Red "Balancing Art History and Art as Art," "Goals of Grooms, Richard Haas, Susan Hall, David Hockney, the Art Museum in Serving Its Audience," and Yvonne Jacquette, Alex Katz, Sylvia Mangold, "Tours for the Disabled Visitor." His attendance at Malcolm Morley, Ed Moses, Robert Motherwell, the meeting is funded by a grant to the Center from Lowell Nesbitt, Philip Pearlstein, Fairfield Porter, the Department of Education's Institute of Museum Kenneth Price, James Rosenquist, Edward Ruscha, Services. Fred Sandback, Cary Stephan, Richard Tuttle, Neil Welliver, Theo Wujcik, and Larry Zox are Smythe will report on his experiences during the represented. Center's fifth Docent Training Program, scheduled for April 20-24. A docent (from the Latin docere, After study in the classics at Yale and Harvard and meaning to teach) conducts tours of exhibitions in a two years with Marlborough's print publishing museum. operation in Europe, Brooke Alexander and his wife, Carolyn, began their own publishing operation in Agee to attend AAM meeting 1968 from a small office in Manhattan. The time was right. The painting and markets, Sheila Agee, assistant to the director at the Center, especially for the work of "name" artists, were will attend the annual meeting of the American simply too rich for most budgets. Limited edition, Association of Museums in Indianapolis June 7-11. original prints had long been the mainstay of the art The Center is a member of the Association, and was market, and publishers like Marlborough, with such the first institution in South Dakota to receive its editions as their Philip Morris Collection by leading pop artists, had already shown successful accreditation. Host museums for the meeting will be collaboration between painters and sculptors and the Conner Prairie Pioneer Settlement, Indianapolis master printers. Children's Museum, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Alexanders took all this an important step and Indiana State Museum. Programs will include forward by encouraging artists to bend or even "Preventitive Care of an Art Collection," "Ethical ignore the conventions of printmaking, if that best Considerations for Museum Professionals," and suited their purposes. In her introduction to the "Standardizing Museum Collections Insurance." exhibition catalog, Judith Goldman describes Agee's attendance at the meeting is funded by a Brooke Alexander as a "risk-taker, salesman, editor grant to the Center from the Department of and production man," whose "ideas about Education's Institute of Museum Services. printmaking change as he watches what artists do." The result was a new generation of artists' prints, having all the vitality and substance of painting, Recent ;irt acquic:itions collage, and drawing. In addition to work purchased from the South Dakota Biennial V (see article in this issue), four J;ick Stengel appointed to Board works have been transferred to the collection from the South Dakota State University Art Department. Jack Stengel of Milbank has been appointed to the Memorial Art Center Board of Trustees, replacing In addition to an unidentified woodblock print, the John Lowrie of Watertown. Stengel is a native of transfer includes a painting by Ada Caldwell Milbank, a graduate of the University of South (1869-1 938), head of the Art Department during Dakota School of Business, and is secretary­ 1899-1936; a watercolor by Hubert Mathieu treasurer and sales manager of Dakota Granite, a (1897-1 954), SDSU art graduate and illustrator; and a family-owned business. He and his wife, Linda Mary, watercolor by Birger Sandzen (1871 -1 954), Sweden­ have two children. born painter, printmaker, and long-time faculty at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. Caldwell Stengel is active with the Acapella Choralaires, studied with Sandzen at the Broadmoor Art Concerts, Community Chautauqua Community Academy in Colorado Springs, probably during the Theatre, and Central United Methodist Church choir summer of 1928 or '29. Mathieu studied with in Milbank, and helped organize the Milbank Area later with her former student, Arts Council last year. Caldwell at SDSU and Harvey Dunn, in . Smythe attends docent symposium Recent gifts to the Center include a suite of six Limen Smythe of Brookings, president of the etchings by Emil Carlsen from Mr. and Mrs. Donald Memorial Art Center Guild and one of 34 Guild Campbell of Chesterland, Ohio; a painting by members that have been certified as docents, Alberta Kinsey from Dr. and Mrs. William Kessler of attended the National Symposium for Art Museum Brookings; and a painting by Robert Penn from Mr. sister, Caroline Dunn Reiland, was mistakenly and Mn;. George Grossman of . credited to R.W. Habberstad of Iroquois. We apologize to the family of Mrs. Reiland for this In the 1979-80 annual report, the gift of three mistake. paintings by Harvey Dunn (1884-1952) from his late

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