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CONTENTS

An Illustrated History of the Arts in South Dakota By Arthur R. Huseboe

Color Plates - x
Prologue - xi
Foreword - xiii

Section I The PERFORMING ARTS IN SOUTH DAKOTA - 1

PART A Drama and Music on the Frontier 3

Chapter 1. Early Yankton - 5
Chapter 2. Frontier Deadwood - 7
Chapter 3. Early Lead and the Opera House - 13
Chapter 4. Frontier Custer and the Bower Family Band - 15
Chapter 5. Theater and Music in Brookings - 17
Chapter 6. Party Dell Rapids - 20
Chapter 7. Lennox and Hurley - Two Community Bands - 22
Chapter 8. A Footnote on the Interstate Grain Palace in Aberdeen - 23
Chapter 9. Felix Vinatieri - 23
Chapter 10. Beginnings at Colleges and Universities - 27

PART B Twentieth-Century Variety From Chatauqua to Television - 34

Chapter 1. Chatauqua The Old and the New - 34
Chapter 2. Civic Music and Community Concerts in Sioux Falls - 38
Chapter 3. The Rapid City Concert Association - 42
Chapter 4. Movies in the Golden Age - 44
Chapter 5. Commercial Radio - 47
Chapter 6. Public Radio - 52
Chapter 7. Commercial Television - 55
Chapter 8. Public Television - 56

PART C The Dramatic Arts, East to West - 60

Chapter 1. The Sioux Falls Community Playhouse and Its Predecessors - 60
Chapter 2. Theater in Rapid City - 66
Chapter 3. The Black Hills Passion Play - 68
Chapter 4. The Black Hills Playhouse - 69
Chapter 5. The. Prairie Repertory Theater - 72
Chapter 6. Earl Mundt: a Life in the Theater - 72
Chapter 7. The Lewis and Clark Playhouse, Yankton - 73
Chapter 8. The Dakota Theatre Caravan - 75
Chapter 9. A Garland of Theatrical Enterprises - 76
Chapter 10. Some Developments in Dance - 78
Chapter 11. Contemporary Film Makers - 80

PART D The Musical Arts - A Rich Profusion - 83

Chapter 1. The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra - 84
Chapter 2. The Sioux Falls Municipal Band - 92
Chapter 3. The Black Hills Symphony and the Black Hills Chamber Music Society - 94
Chapter 4. The Faulk County Chorus - 97
Chapter 5. The Singing Legionnaires and Conductor William Lee Bright - 98
Chapter 6. The Grieg Male Chorus - 99
Chapter 7. Lawrence Welk - 100
Chapter 8. Jarle Foss, Fiddler - 102
Chapter 9. Friends of Old Time Music and the Sioux River Arts Festival - 102
Chapter 10. The Black Hills Bluegrass Festival - 103
Chapter II. South Cakota Composers - 103
Chapter 12. Vocal Soloists - 106
Chapter 13. Prominent Performers and Educators - 107

SECTION II AN APPRAISAL OF SIOUX ARTS by Arthur Amiotte - 109

PART A An Overview of Sioux Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts - 111

Chapter 1. The Sioux Visual Arts Matrix - 112
Chapter 2. A Preface to Sioux Literature - 117
Chapter 3. The Matrix for Sioux Literature by Janette K. Murray - 117
Chapter 4. The Matrix for Sioux Music an Dance - 122

PART B A Chronological Appraisal of Sioux Visual Arts - 123

Chapter 1. Pre- and Post Contact Indigenous Tribal Visual Arts - 124
Chapter 2. Transitional Tribal Arts - 130
Chapter 3. Emerging Non-traditional Fine Arts by Sioux Artists - 134
Chapter 4. Contemporary or Modern Sioux Arts - 138

PART C An Overview of Literature by Dakota/Lakota Authors by Janette K. Murray - 147

Chapter 1. The Indigenous Period - 148
Chapter 2. The Transitional Period - 149
Chapter 3. The Contemporary or Modern Period - 156

PART D An Overview of Sioux Music and Dance - 139

Chapter 1. Sioux Music and Dance by Lynn Huenemann - 160

SECTION III THE VISUAL ARTS - 203

PART A Architecture - 206

Chapter 1. Frontier Architecture - 206
Chapter 2. Some Early Ethnic Influences - 209
Chapter 3. Private Houses, American Style - 211
Chapter 4. Wallace Dow: Master of Public Architecture - 214
Chapter 5. F.C.W. Keuhn - 216
Chapter 6. A Gallery of Landmarks - 217
Chapter 7. Harold Spitznagel - 220
Chapter 8. A Modern Twelfth-Century Stave Church - 223

PART B Art in Two Dimensions: Painting and Photography - 225

Chapter 1. George Catlin - 226
Chapter 2. Karl Bodmer - 227
Chapter 3. John Banvard and His MIssissippi Panorama - 228
Chapter 4 Two Pioneer Painters: Janousek and Greener - 230
Chapter 5. Painters in the Black Hills, 1930s to 1960s - 231
Chapter 6. Ada Caldwell - 236
Chapter 7. Harvey Dunn - The Prairie Was His Garden - 237
Chapter 8. Sixteen Painters - 241
Chapter 9. The Western Experience - 245
Chapter 10. Some Photographers in South Dakota - 247

PART C Sculpture - 249

Chapter 1. Solon Borglum - 250
Chapter 2. Gutzon Borglum and Mount Rushmore - 251
Chapter 3. James Earle Fraser - 254
Chapter 4. A Case of Influence - 256
Chapter 5. Korczak Ziolkowski - 257
Chapter 6. Martens and Hepper, Strength and Delicacy - 258
Chapter 7. Mark McGinnis - 260
Chapter 8. Thirteen Sculptors - 260
Chapter 9. A View to the West - 262
Chapter 10. Sixteenth=Century Michelangelos - 263

SECTION IV THE LITERARY ARTS - 265

PART A Writers of the Frontier Era - 267

Chapter 1. Captain Jack Crawford, Black Hills Poet-Scout - 268
Chapter 2. Laura Ingals Wilder, Pioneer Girl - 270
Chapter 3. Pioneer Heroines and Woman Novelists - 274
Chapter 4. The Frontier Agonizer - Hamlin Garland - 279
Chapter 5. The Only Black Farmer Between Gregory and Omaha - 283
Chapter 6. Carruth and Harris - Frontier Humorists - 284
Chapter 7 The Wizard of Aberdeen - 286

PART B The Rural Scene: Comic and Tragic - 288

Chapter 1. William Otis Lillibridge, Dentist by Day - 289
Chapter 2. Stuart Edward White - 29
Chapter 3. Ole Edvart Rolvaag, Giant in the Earth - 29
Chapter 4. Reflections of a Sheepherder - 296
Chapter 5. Badger Clark - 298
Chapter 6. Two Novelists of Central South Dakota - 32
Chapter 7. Herbert Krause - 303
Chapter 8. Frederick Manfred - 306

PART C Literary Magazines and Editors - 307

Chapter 1. Pasque Petals - 308
Chapter 2. Leaning Toward the West, SDR and John R. Milton - 312

PART D A Handful of Playwrights - 315

Chapter 1. Wayne S. Knutson - 316
Chapter 2. Ronald L. Robinson - 317

PART E The Last Word - Some Contemporary South Dakota Writers - 319

Chapter 1. Gretchen Gail Shoemaker - 319
Chapter 2. David Allen Evans - 320
Chapter 3. Kathleen Norris and David Dwyer - 321
Chapter 4. Two Winners of SDAC Grants: Sylvia G. Wheeler and Jack Kreitzer - 322
Chapter 5. John Haines and Vern Rutsala - 323
Chapter 6. Freya Manfred - 323
Chapter 7. Linda Hasselstrom - 324
Chapter 8. Kim Ode - 326
Chapter 9. Joseph Hansen - 326
Chapter 10. Edward R. Zietlow - 326
Chapter 11. Michael Doane - 327
Chapter 12. Donglas Unger - 328
Chapter 13. William Reynolds - 328
Chapter 14. Dan 0'Brien - 328
Chapter 15. Writers of Children's Stories: Paul Goble and Nancy Veglahn - 329
Chapter 16. NBA-Winner Pete Dexter - 330

SECTION V SUSTAINING THE ARTS - 333

PART A The Beginnings of Government Support - 335

Chapter 1. The South Dakota Historical Society - 335
Chapter 2. Art by Petition - The Capitol of 1910 - 337
Chapter 3. Federal Arts Projects of the WPA - 339

PART B Art in Museums - 344

Chapter 1. Community and College Museums - 344
Chapter 2. The South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings - 349
Chapter 3. The Shrine to Music Museum - 350
Chapter 4. The Dahl Fine Arts Center - 352
Chapter 5. The Sioux Falls Civic Fine Arts Center - 354

PART C The Latest in Government and Community Support - 355

Chapter 1. The South Dakota Arts Council and the Community Arts Council Movement - 356
Chapter 2. The Aberdeen area Arts Council - 374
Chapter 3. The Sioux Empire Arts Council - 375
Chapter 4. The Rapid City Fine Arts Council - 376
Chapter 5. The South Dakota Committee on the Humanities - 378

Afterword - 382
Acknowledgements by the Author - 383
Works Cited in Section II - 385
Index of Names of Persons and Places - 387