North Dakota Art History
with an emphasis on representational art
Introduction
This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "North Dakota Art History." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to the articles and essays.
Following the links to Resource Library articles and essays are a listing of museums in the state which have provided materials to Resource Library for this or any other topic.
Listed after museums are links to online resources outside the TFAO website. Following these resources is information about offline resources including DVDs, paper-printed books, journals and articles. Our goal is to present complete knowledge relating to this section of Topics in American Art.
We recommend that researchers always search within Resource Library for additional material. Please see TFAO's page How to research topics not listed for more information.
(above: Seth Eastman, Fort Rice, North Dakota, 1873, 23 x 32 7/16 inches, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Resource Library essays listed by author name in alphabetical order, followed by articles:
Resource Library contains no articles or essays specific to the state.
We recommend that researchers always search within Resource Library for additional material. Please see TFAO's page How to research topics not listed for more information.
Museums and other non-profit sources of Resource Library articles and essays:
Other online information:
Artists from North Dakota in Wikipedia. Accessed August, 2015.
"Rosemeade" by Linda & Bill Bakken, from an article that appeared in WPA Press, Vol. 16, Spring 2003. Accessed November, 2015.
University of North Dakota Art Collections at the Empire held an exhibit in 2013 titled Selected Works by Regional Artists (1933-2010), including of 30 works by 19 artists from North Dakota and western Minnesota. Nicole Derenne served as guest curator for the exhibition. Accessed February, 2016.
(above: Shield, Arikara, North Dakota, c. 1850, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Books, listed by year of publication, with most recently published book listed first:
History of North Dakota, By Elwyn B. Robinson. Published by University of Nebraska Press, 1966. Original from the University of Virginia. Digitized Jan 15, 2008. 599 pages
North Dakota Artists, (University of North Dakota Library studies) by Paul Everett Barr. Published by The Library, 1954. 64 pages
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TFAO catalogues:
TFAO's Distinguished Artists catalogue provides online access to biographical information for artists associated with this state. Also, Search Resource Library for online articles and essays concerning both individual artists associated with this state's history and the history of art centers and museums in this state. Resource Library articles and essays devoted to individual artists and institutions are not listed on this page.
Links to sources of information outside of our web site are provided only as referrals for your further consideration. Please use due diligence in judging the quality of information contained in these and all other web sites. Information from linked sources may be inaccurate or out of date. TFAO neither recommends or endorses these referenced organizations. Although TFAO includes links to other web sites, it takes no responsibility for the content or information contained on those other sites, nor exerts any editorial or other control over them. For more information on evaluating web pages see TFAO's General Resources section in Online Resources for Collectors and Students of Art History.
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