Pose - Repose: Figurative Works from the Collections
Depicting the human form in art has a long legacy. From the time that abstracted figures started making appearances on smoke-stained cave walls, human beings have been a favorite subject of artists who depict the human body to convey truths and fictions about their subjects, about emotions and beliefs, about actions and memories.
Pose | Repose gathers artworks from the South Dakota Art Museum Collections that depict human faces and figures. Featured portraits depict subjects posed intentionally with direct gazes, symbolic objects, and telling wardrobes. Other works reveal subjects in repose or in motion, underlining moments of our universal connectedness through posture. Additionally, nude studies reference the centuries-old artistic heritage of artists examining and depicting the human body.
Primarily gleaned from the Museum鈥檚 Collections, these artworks reveal the human form as depicted by many of South Dakota鈥檚 most important artists, including Ada Caldwell, Milton Kudlacek, Robert Lee Penn, Melvin Spinar, and Martin Wanserski. A significant number of pieces on display are by two of South Dakota鈥檚 most renowned artists, illustrator Harvey Dunn and Yanktonai artist Oscar Howe, including two loaned works: Dunn鈥檚 Dakota Woman from the Dakota Wesleyan University collection and Howe鈥檚 Woman Scalp Dancer from a private collector.
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Depicting the human form in art has a long legacy. From the time that abstracted figures started making appearances on smoke-stained cave walls, human beings have been a favorite subject of artists who depict the human body to convey truths and fictions about their subjects, about emotions and beliefs, about actions and memories.
Pose | Repose gathers artworks from the South Dakota Art Museum Collections that depict human faces and figures. Featured portraits depict subjects posed intentionally with direct gazes, symbolic objects, and telling wardrobes. Other works reveal subjects in repose or in motion, underlining moments of our universal connectedness through posture. Additionally, nude studies reference the centuries-old artistic heritage of artists examining and depicting the human body.
Primarily gleaned from the Museum鈥檚 Collections, these artworks reveal the human form as depicted by many of South Dakota鈥檚 most important artists, including Ada Caldwell, Milton Kudlacek, Robert Lee Penn, Melvin Spinar, and Martin Wanserski. A significant number of pieces on display are by two of South Dakota鈥檚 most renowned artists, illustrator Harvey Dunn and Yanktonai artist Oscar Howe, including two loaned works: Dunn鈥檚 Dakota Woman from the Dakota Wesleyan University collection and Howe鈥檚 Woman Scalp Dancer from a private collector.
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