View the American Indian beadwork, and porcupine quill work that is on display at the Oscar Howe Art Center in Mitchell, South Dakota.
History from 1600 – 1939 is available to research in the Hamond Garland Middle Border exhibits.
Art gallery choices are from Oscar Howe (Native American Painter, 1915-1983) Born in Joe Creek, South Dakota, on the Crow Creek Reservation on 13 May 1915, Howe was given the name Mazuha Hokshina meaning "Trader Boy".
A student at The Studio at the Santa Fe Indian School between 1935 and 1938, Howe earned his BA from Dakota Wesleyan University in 1952 and his MFA the following year having attended the University of Oklahoma. At the Indian Arts Center in Lawton, Oklahoma he learned mural techniques while working with Olaf Nordmark.
Harvey Dunn, born March 8, 1884 on a homestead near Manchester, South Dakota. Mr. Dunn was a teacher, illustrator and painter. He died in 1952. His art focuses primarily on the America West.
Charles Hargens, Jr. (1893- 1997) was born in Hot Springs, South Dakota and grew up in the Black Hills of the West. An accomplished painter and illustrator, Hargens was renowned for his scenes of the Old West.
James Earle Fraser (November 4, 1876 – October 11, 1953) was an American sculptor, born in Winona, Minnesota. Fraser began following his chosen path by carving figures from pieces of limestone scavenged from a stone quarry close to his home near Mitchell, South Dakota. Two of his best known works, the powerful and often copied, "End of the Trail" and the Indian Head/Buffalo nickel.
John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (1867-1941) Bear River, Utah. Borglum’s greatest challenge was completing the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota. This work required Borglum to create the faces of four former United States’ presidents. Yet the faces were not merely double or triple the size of the actual human face, but each face was 60 feet high. Borglum worked on the Monument for 14 summers, but died before it was finished. His son, Lincoln, also a sculptor, finished the work seven months later.
Location: 119 W 3rd, Mitchell, SD 57301
Phone: (605) 996-4111
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