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Fall 1975

South Dakota Memorial Art Center News, Fall 1975

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Follow this and additional works at: https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/sdam_news south dakota memorial rtfall 1975 TH DM I y OCT 197 news

Artists' Religious Vision to be available for circulation The Association of Christian of Brandon; Sister Leonarda Langen Churches of South Dakota has given of Yankton; Robert Berg of Fort the exhibition, Artists' Religious Wayne, Indiana; William Ellingson Vision, to the Center for its of St. Cloud, Minnesota; Edward collection. The twenty-two works by Fish of Eau Claire, Wisconsin; twenty regional artists were selected Robert Hodgell of Pass-A-Grille for purchase in 1972 by Raymond Beach, Florida; Corita Kent of Shermoe of the Sioux Falls Civic Boston, Massachusetts; Hugo Lutz Fine Arts Center with funds fromthe of East Orange, ew Jersey; and Association and the South Dakota James Munce of Manhattan, Kansas. Arts Council. Represented in the collection are Cele Benson, Palmer The Memorial Art Center intends to Eide, Gloria Evans, Grace offer the exhibition for circulation Goodrich, Carl Grupp, B. Scott this year to state museums, galleries, Reardcm, Libby Rogers, Raymond libraries, and schools. There is no Shermoe, \tel Spinar, and \lary fee for a twenty-one day showing; Wallner, all of Sioux Falls; Robert exhibitors are asked to pay incoming AldernofVermillion; Melvin Larson transportation charges by Memorial Art Center van. Inquiries should be Gloria Evans. Pope John. directed to Rex Gulbranson, From Artists' Religious Vision Exhibition. assistant to the director.

Spitznagel architecture exhibitions scheduled

Harold Spitznagel began his A1t Center board thi year, plans Museum in Aberdeen, and the Fine architectural practice in South were made for this retrospective Arts Center (which the firm Dakota in the 1930s followingstudy exhibition October 5-26. Spitznagel . designed) in Vermillion. at the Art Institute of Chicago and died April 26th in Sioux Falls, and Waldo Steele of the firm will speak the University of Pennsylvania. He work on the exhibition is being on the work of the architect at the soon became the mo t respected and carried out by members of his firm, Center on October 5th at 3:00 p.m., influentialarchitect in the state, and The Spitznagel Partners, and the and October 6th at 10:30 a.m. The was named a Fellow in the American Center staff. Following the showing program is sponsored by the Institute of Architects. FollO\\ ing at the Center the exhibition will be 1 ational Endow·11ent for the Arts recognition by the South Dakota Arts shown at the Civic Fine Arts Center through the South Dakota Arts Council in 1974 and th� \lemorial in Sioux Fal1s, Dacotah Prairie Council.

The Spitznagel Partners. The Arena, Sioux Falls. From the Architecture of Harold Spitznagel Exhibition. American women artists to be Cinema Mobile art van transporting fall exhibitions honored by special exhibition Society

The Art of South Dakota touring exhibition which will tour through As part of a program at South Dakota established South Dakota Federation of In conjunction with the exhibition exhibition will be shown this fall at May of 1976 is sponsored by the State University this fall in honor of Women's Clubs, and South Dakota two Brookings artists, Pamela Mayes Three Brookings couples- the Saul the South Dakota State Fair in Memorial Art Center Foundation. South Dakota Memorial Art Center distinguished American women the and Signe Stuart, will present Friefelds, John D. Kennedys, and Huron (August 6 - September 25), Foundation. Center is presenting a special slide-illustrated talks on women in Joseph Stuarts- have formed a Oscar Howe Cultural Center in exhibition called Ten A111erican An 1erican art. The talks will be given steering committee to establish the Mitchell (October 6 - 26), and the This fall the South Dakota School Art Starting this fall a mobile art van will Women Artists. Work bv Isabel on Sunday, September 7th, at 3:00 �emorial Art Center Cinema Civic Fine Arts Center in Sioux Falls II will be shown at Watertown transport touring exhibitions Bishop, Mary Cassatt, S�lly Hazelet p.111., and on Monday, September Society. Dr. Saul Friefeld has been (November 5 - 25). The tour will Junior High School (September 5 - sponsored by the Center throughout Drummond, Helen Frankenthaler, 8th, at 10:30 a.m. The program is named chairman of the committee. continue through Decemher ofl976. 25), Flandreau Public High School the state. The van is equipped with Grace Hartigan, Agnes Martin, Joan being sponsored at the Center by the Seven featurefilms, with all but one The Art of South Dakota was (October 6 - 26), and Clark Junior air conditioning, a rear heater, and Mitchell, , Georgia National Endowment for the Arts accompanied by short features, will organized by the Center and High School (:\Jovember5 - 25). The padded racks forvertical transport of O'Keeffe, and Irene Rice Pereira through the South Dakota Arts be shown during the 1975-76 season. sponsored by the National contents of School Art II are a paintings. The Greater State Fund of from regional museum collections Council and the South Dakota State All show times are 3:00 p.m. Endowment for the Arts through the selection of student work included South Dakota State University has been loaned to the exhibition, University Cultural-Entertainment South Dakota Arts Council, South in the :\1arch 30 -April 20 showing in allocated funds for purchasing the which runs September 7-28. Committee. ' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) September 14 Dakota Bicentennial Commission, the Center's galleries. The van. 's The Magician ( 1958) October 26 's (1950) Sculpture dedication at Ritz FALL CALENDAR Two oils by pioneer modernist :November 16 Rene Clement's Memorial Plaza scheduled (1952) January 18 Sculpture Models by Harold Weston acquired at Art Center Michael Powell and Emeric The dedication of Vent by Harold and funds-of South Dakota State Pastorius opens September 1 Pressburger's The Red Shoes Pastorius, Jr. (U.S., born 1936) is University. Pastorius sculpture dedication in Two oil paintings by the pioneer He was a charter member and (1948) February 8 scheduled for Thursday, September A showing of the work of Pastorius Center's :\1adelinc Ritz Plaza American modernist Harold Weston president of the Federation of 4th, 3:30 p.m. at the Madeline Ritz will be held at the Center September September 4 (1894-1972), Reclining Nude, 1925, John Boorman's Zardoz (1974) Modem Painters and Sculptors. His March 21 Memorial Plaza south of the Art 1-5. During this time he will be and Lilacs (illustrated), 1929, have Center. Governor Kneip will be giving a lecture about his work in the Sculpture Models by Harold work is included in the collections of Pastorius ends September 5 been given to the Center by Dr. the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 's Clowns (1971) present for the event. The Center Auditorium at a time to be Martin H. Bush of Wichita, Kansas. Washington, Fogg Art Museum at April 25 commission is sponsored by the announced later. While Pastorius Ten American VVomen Artists opens Harvard, Museum of in Individual season subscriptions are National Endowment for the Arts and his wifeare in Brookings, he will September 7 Weston was born in Merion, New York, National Collection of $10, which includes a complete through the South Dakota Arts be working with students of "Women in American Art" by Pennsylvania. He studied at Exeter Fine Arts in Washington, program guide, post-showing Council and several departments sculpture and three-dimension. Pamela Maves & Signe Stuart Academy, in and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine ArJ::s analyses and discussions, and September ·1, 3:00 p.m.; , and at in , refreshments. Tickets are available­ September 8, 10::30 a.m. (Magna Cum Laude in Fine A1ts). Museum of Art, Whitney �1useum of at the South Dakota State University Working as a painter, printmaker, American Art in New York, Yale Activities Center, telephone Early Dunn French posters *Orson WeJles' The Magnificent and muralist, he traveled University Art Gallery, and many 688-6173. No tickets to individual A111berso11s shows September 14, extensively throughout the world. others. showings will be sold. i I lustration 3:00 p.m. to be exhibited "Poet-Painters of China and " Over 200 original posters designed by Dr. Betty :-.1onroc September acquired by such distinguished French artists 21, 3:00 p.m. Harvey Thomas Dunn. The oil painting made by Harvey as Pierre Bonnard, Honore Daumier, Ten American Women Artists ends Frontispiece illustration �Lmrice Denis, Edouard �1anet for E.W. Hornung's Thomas Dunn (1884-1952) for the 1 September 28 Dead Men Tell No Tales frontispiece illustration of E. W. Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, and Jacques Villon will be shown at the Architecture of Qarolcl '-nitzn (New York: Schribner's, 1906). Hornung's book published by opens Oc:tobe1 - From South Dakota Scribner's in 1906, Dead Men Tell Center :\Jovember 2-30. The posters Memorial Art Center No Tales, has been given to the are on loan from the �1 useum of " Architecture of Harold Spitznagel" Collection Center by Mrs. Robert D. Lusk of Decorative Arts in , and the bv Waldo Steele October ,5, 3:00 Gift of Mrs. Robert D. Lusk, exhibition tour in the p:m.; Octolwr 6, 10:30 a.m. Huron. Huron, South Dakota. The painting represents the earliest illustration in is sponsored by the French Embassy *Ingmar Bergman's The �1agicia11 the Center's Dunn collection, which in New York. A slide program shows October 26, 3:00 p.m. Harold Weston. now numbers sixty works. Dunn illw,trating the original context of Lilacs, Architecture of Harold Spitznagel 1929. ; ;::J studied with Wilmington, Delaware, these posters will run during the ends October 26 From South Dakota rjF cour�e of the exhibition. Due to the Memorial Art Center artist Howard Pyle during 190-1-06, and his teacher's influence cau be size uf this exhibition, the Harvey Three Centuries of French Posters Collection and Photoscape open No\ ember 2 Gift of seen in this work. Especially notable Dunn collection will not be on Dr. Martin H. Bush, is the isolation of the action in the display during November. "The French Poster" h} Paul Wichita, Kansas painting by large areas of negative �tocs,myiT November 2, 3:00 p.m.; space, and the "fish-eye"view of the �lr. Paul \,focsanyi, director of the " O\·ember 3, 10:30 a.m. action. New School Art Center in New York, Akim Kurosawa'sRashomon shows will speak on the development of the i'\overnber 16, 3:00 p.m. :\1rs.Lusk was the firstpresident and poster in France as a fine art form at Center clo�ed for Thanksgiving is a member of the Center's board of the Center on :--Jovemher2nd at 3:00 ,.·ovemher 27 trustees. She acquired the painting p.m. and November 3rd at 10:30 a.rn. from the artist's great-nephew, :\1r. �1ocsanyi organized the catalog Three Centuries of French Posters Robert A. Dunn of Anaheim, of the exhibition for showing at the and Photoscape end , ovember 30 California. New School Art Center in �larch. "'h:, subscnption only; subject to eha11ge Gontesky sculpture acquired Become an A·rt Center Member An untitled polyester resin sculpture State College, California (B.A., by Yankton artist Michael Gontesky 1964), University of Kansas in (U.S., born 1942) has been Lawrence (M.F.A., 1968), and the � / purchased for the Center's University of South Dakota in rej o _An nual me mberjkip collections fromthe South Dakota Vermillion (1969-70). During STUDENT MEMBER ...... $ 1 Biennial II exhibition. Gontesky 1971-72 he taught at the ACTIVE MEMBER ...... 10 was born in ational City, Weston-Su per-Mare Technical PARTICIPATING MEMBER ...... 25 California. He studied at San Diego College in Somerset, England. He CONTRIBUTING MEMBER ...... 50 has taught in the Art Department of PAT RON MEMBER ...... 100 Mount Marty College in Yankton SUPPORTING MEMBER...... 250 since 1972. SUSTAINING MEMBER ...... 500 SPONSORING MEMBER ...... 750 Art historian LIFE MEMBER ...... 1,000 Gifts and memoria ls are welcome. to speak Art Center Dr. Betty Monroe, chairman of the art history department of Northwestern University in adds members Evanston, Illinois, will speak on the poet-painters of China and Japan at NEW MEMBERS for the the Center on September 21st. Dr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lindholm, Monroe translated and adapted Brookings (Active); Raymond Penn, South ::bakola rf/e moria f -4r t Le,der Japanese Painting in the Literati Madison, Wisconsin (Active); Jan Style by Yoshiho Yonezawa and Chu Wentz, Brookings (Active). -·------·------Yoshizawa, which was published by M-r , and Mrs. Weatherhill/Heibonsha in 1974. In RENEWAL MEMBERS Address. .. August she was in Japan on a Mildred Bennett, Winner (Student); City .. State ...... ______Zip code ______research grant. Britton Study Club, Britton (Active); Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Cline, Brookings Amount enclosed $ ___ ------· Dote __ __ _ (Active); Mr. & Mrs. John Evanoff, Photoscape to be Brookings (Contributing); Helen Engebretson, Brookings shown at Center (Participating); �fr. & Mrs. Gilbert Gilbertson, Brookings in November (Participating); Mr. & Mrs. orman H. Lease, Wentworth (Active); Dr. & Photoscape, a collection of twenty Mrs. Allan Lindstrom, Brookings Quarterly calendar of events and Members Newsletter photographs depicting historical (Active); Frances E. Malmstrom, Reduced fees for art classes and workshops sites in South Dakota will be shown Brookings (Active); Wilrna Reduced subscription rates to leading art magazines in the Center's galleries November Monserud, Webster (Active); Mrs. Rental and purchase of original works of art through 2-30. Photoscape is sponsored by Kathleen Nagle, Brookings (Active); the Soles and Rental Ga llery the ational Endowment for the Arts Miss ellie K. Patson, Brookings Discounts on most items sold in the Art Center Shop through the South Dakota Arts (Participating); Mr. & Mrs. Aubrey Participation in the Art Center's Tour Program Council, South Dakota Historical Sherwood, DeSmet (Patron); Dr. & Discounts on Art Center publications Preservation Society, and the Mrs. Allan Westby, Brookings Invitations to Member's previews of major exhibitions National Bank of South Dakota (Active).

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