Patricia DuBose Duncan

 

CAREER SUMMARY

b. 1932, Nashville, Tennessee
EDUCATION
1944 Philadelphia Museum School, Scholarship
1950-1954 Washington University School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, B.F.A.
1956-1957 Independent Study, Japan
1967-1971 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1983-1985 Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, ME
1992 Cité International des Arts, Paris, FRANCE
   
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
   
1956 Toraya Gallery, Sasebo, Japan
1956 Toraya Gallery, Sasebo, Japan
1964 Spiva Gallery of Art, Joplin, MO
1970 Jewish Community Center, Kansas City, MO
1972 Johnson County Library, Topeka, KS
1973  Topeka Public Library, Topeka, KS
  Kansas City Museum of Science and History, Kansas City, MO
  Marymount College, Salina, KS
  Century II Gallery (Wichita Civic Gallery), Wichita, KS
1974 Bethel College, North Newton, KS
1976 Crown Center Multi-Media Forum, Kansas City, MO
  Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
  Bell Museum, Minneapolis, MN
1976-1986 See Smithsonian Schedule (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service)
1977 Stuhr Museum, Grand Island, NE
  Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
The Octagon, Washington, DC
Union Carbide, Corporate Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO
1979 Sears Corporate Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980 Nikon House, New York, NY
  Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, MO
1981 Kansas University Regents Center, Kansas City, MO
1985 Central Exchange Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1988 Anne Weber Gallery, Georgetown, ME
  Unity College, Unity, ME
1989 Society of Contemporary Photography Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1990 University of Southern Maine, Portland ME
  Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
1991 Leedy-Voukos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1995 The Writers’ Place, Kansas City, MO
  Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
2001
50 Year Retrospective “Taking Root”, Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2002
50 Year Retrospective “50 Years of Art”, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
   
JURIED AND INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
   
1954 Mid-America Annual, Kansas City, MO: City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
1955 Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
1958 “Young Painters”, Kansas State Federation of Art
1960 Group Exhibition, Unitarian Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1967 “Thirty Miles of Painting”, Junior League Juried Show, Kansas City, MO
1968 “Exphotage”, Chicago Artists’ Guild, Chicago, IL
1972 “Six Photographers”, Kansas City Art Institute
1975-1978 Volunteer Service Photographers Invitational, New York, NY
1979 Women’s Caucus for Art Exhibition, Kansas City, MO
“Helicon 9” Exhibition, First Women’s Bank, New York, NY
1980 “Male and Female”, Batman Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1985 “Close to Home:  The Midwest As Subject and Symbol”, Kansas City, MO
“Reuben Saunders Gallery Presents”, Wichita, KS
“Urban Landscapes”, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
“Full Spectrum”, Messing Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1986 Group Invitational, Messing Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Maine Photographic Workshops, Juried Annual, New York, NY
“Sequences”, Union Hill Arts, Kansas City, MO
1987 Mid-Four Exhibition, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
“Reconstructed Landscapes”, Santa Fe, NM
Juried Members Show, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
“American Color”, University of New Mexico traveling exhibition
1988 “Art in the Woods”, Overland Park, KS
1989 Dean Valentgas Gallery, Portland, ME
Women’s Art Registry of Minneapolis, MN
39th Annual Spiva Competitive, Joplin, MO
1989-1990 Women in Photography International, Pacific Grove, CA and around the world
1990 “Pressure Points”, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO
“Art Ex Machina”, Richmond, VA
“The Boat in 20th Century Art”, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
“Beyond Black & White”, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
1990-1991 “Midwest Invitational VI”, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI
1991 Kansas City Artists Coalition Members’ Annual, Kansas City, MO
“Maine Photographers”, Portland School of Art, Portland, ME
1993 “Photographers from the Permanent Collection”, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
1994 “Land and its Uses:  Photographs from the Collection”, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS (Curated by John Szarkowski)
1995 “Maine Artists Away”, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
2002-2004 Art In Embassies Program, Tokyo, Japan
2002 “Fish, Flowers and Flying Things”, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
2003-2006 “Homage to the Flint Hills”, Traveling in Kansas and Washington, DC
2005 “Recent Acquisitions”, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
2007 Maine Print Project, Center for Maine Contemporary Art
2007 Kansas Masters Invitational Exhibition
2010 "Flora and Fauna", Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO

2010

“Photographing Maine - Ten Years Later 2000-2009 ”, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
 
 
COLLECTIONS (Selected)  
   
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, ME
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Wichita, KS. Museum
Museum of the Prairie, Bethel College, North Newton, KS
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO
Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Kauffman Museum, Bethel College, North Newton, KS
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO
Crown Center Corporation, Kansas City, MO
Hyatt Regency Hotels
Mercantile Bank, Kansas City, MO
Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC
City of Kansas City, MO
City of Overland Park, KS
Polsinelli, White & Vardeman, Kansas City, MO
Alexander & Alexander, Kansas City, MO
Frankona America Life Reassurance Company, Kansas City, MO
United Missouri Bank, Kansas City, MO
Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO
KC Southern Industries, Kansas City, MO
Duncan Stark Wilson Architects, Inc
Dr. Antonio Racela, Kansas City, MO
Karen Lewis, Portland, ME
Mr. & Mrs. William Hickok, Kansas City, MO
Mr. & Mrs. Norman Kahn, Kansas City, MO
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Scribner, New York, NY
Senator Nancy Kassebaum (Ret.) Burdick, KS
Kent Keatinge, Camden, ME
Winfield & Nancy Padgett, Camden, ME and Dallas, TX
Margaret Lee Blunt, Burlingame, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Nixon, San Rafael, CA
 
AWARDS AND GRANTS (Selected)
 
1956 USN Grant, Mural, JAPAN, oil on canvas
1969 Award, Juried Show, Chicago Artists Guild
1971 Grant, Kansas City Trusts and Foundations
Grant, America the Beautiful Fund
1974 Grant, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (Project Documerica)
1974-1975 Grant, Hallmark Cards, Inc.
1975-1976 Grant, Smithsonian Institution
1977 Silver Medal Award, The Society of Publication Designers, New York, NY
1978 Award of Merit, The Society of Publication Designers, New York, NY
1979 Special Recognition Award, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kansas City, MO
Distinguished Alumna Award, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1980 Women in Communications, Inc. Award
1981 First Place Award, Tri Delta Exhibition, Kansas City, MO
1987 First Place Award, Tri Delta Exhibition, Kansas City, MO
Active Sponsor Purchase Award, Mid-Four Exhibition, Kansas City, MO
1992 Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FRANCE
   

TEACHING POSITIONS AND GUEST LECTURES (Selected)

   
1956-1957 Japan Culture Center, Sasebo, JAPAN
1971-1973 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1975 Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
1975 Kansas University, Lawrence, KS
1976 Aspen Design Institute, Aspen, CO
1979 Washington University, Visiting Artist Series, St. Louis, MO
1979 Lecture, Loess Hills Prairie Seminar, Onawa, IA
1980 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1983-1984 University of Missouri, Mark Twain Creative Writing Workshop, visiting faculty, Kansas City, MO
1984 “A Tallgrass Prairie Journal” Audubon Society, Lincoln, NE
1986 Bethel College, North Newton, KS
1987 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
Unity College, Unity, ME
1989 Society of Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
1991 Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
Albrecht-Kemper Museum, St. Joseph, MO
2001 Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS
2005 Gordon Parks Symposium, Ft. Scott, KS
 
COLLECTIONS (Special)
   
1986 The Patricia DuBose Duncan Personal Papers and Photographs, Spencer Library and  Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS
1997 The Patricia DuBose Duncan Archives, National Park Service Great Plains Program
2003 The Patricia Duncan Archive of Gordon Parks Works, gift to Gordon Parks Museum, Fort Scott, KS.
   
COMMISSIONS
1957 Mural, United States Navy Officers’ Club, Sasebo, JAPAN, oil on canvas, 5' x 15'
1974 Photo-Mural, “Kansas City Royals”, Sheraton Royal Hotel, Kansas City, MO, 6' x 48'
1979 Photo-Mural, “The Konza Prairie”, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Kansas City, MO, 9' x 188'
Photo-Mural, Emporia Public Library, Emporia, KS, 5' x 8'
1980 Photo-Mural, Fire Station #4, City of Kansas City, MO, 4'-1/2'' x 8'-1/2'' (one- percent for art program)
   
PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS (Selected)
   
1980 Amalgamated Meatcutters Local #567, President’s Office, Kansas City, MO, 3'x 5' Mural
Jensen-Salsbury Laboratories, Kansas City, MO
Kansas Department of Economic Development, Topeka, KS
1981 Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
Olathe Kansas Public Library, Olathe, KS
1985 Wichita Eagle-Beacon, Wichita, KS
1991 Kansas City International Airport
1998 Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University
2001 Convention Center, Overland Park, KS
2005 Gordon Parks Center, Ft. Scott, KS
   
BOARDS AND APPOINTMENTS
   
1973 Founder, Save the Tallgrass Prairie, Inc.
1976 Founder, Grassland Heritage Foundation
1980-1987 Kansas City Municipal Art Commission
1980-present Trustee Emeritus, Nature Conservancy
1985-1988 Board Member, Society for Contemporary Photography
   

RADIO (Selected)

   
1977 NPR, “All Things Considered”, Washington, DC
1980 KCUR FM Kansas City, special interview
1985 “Newsweek On Air”
   
TELEVISION (Selected)
   
1973 NBC, “Today Show”
1975 NBC, “Today Show”
1976 ABC, CBS Kansas City, MO
1978 CBS Denver, CO
CBS St. Joseph, MO
1979 NBC St. Louis, MO
1981 KCPT, Channel 19, Kansas City, MO
Video Tape, “Prairie Moments” for National Public Radio and Television, Manhattan, KS
1982 WNET TV-13, New York City, “Carl Sandberg”, still photographs. Produced by Perry Miller Adato
1986 PBS, “Moments Without Proper Names”, The Life and Work of Gordon Parks. Produced by Past America, Inc., still photography
1991 KSHB, Channel 41, Kansas City, MO, “AM Live”
   
MULTI-MEDIA
   
1976 “Tallgrass Prairie:  The Inland Sea”, 30 minute/9 projector, 3 screen presentation. Master Copy – Hallmark Multimedia Forum
   
BOOKS  
   
1964 Seesaw, One of a Kind Artist’s Book
1979 Tallgrass Prairie:  The Inland Sea, The Lowell Press, Kansas City, MO photographs and text, 116 pages
1995 Paris Days, Unpublished
   
CONSULTANT WORK
   
1979 Life Magazine with Gordon Parks
National Geographic Magazine
1980 Time Magazine
1985 Newsweek Magazine
   
PUBLISHED WORK (Selected)
   
1971 Photographs and Text, “The Tallgrass Country of Kansas”, American Forests Magazine
PhotoEssay, “The Patriots of Horton Street”, Kansas City Star Magazine
1972 “Is There Anything Worth Saving in Kansas?”, Text and Photographs, Environmental Action, Washington, DC
1972 Reprinted, Not Man Apart, San Francisco, CA
“Portraits of the Prairie”, Washington University Magazine, St. Louis, MO
Photography, Smithsonian Magazine, Washington, DC
1973 Book Review, “Floor of the Sky:  The Great Plains”, by David Plowden, Sierra Club, San Francisco, CA, Not Man Apart
Photographs, Hiking and Ski Touring, Colorado Springs, CO
Photographs, United Systems Quarterly, United Telecom, Inc., Fairway, KS
Photographs, Sierra Club Bulletin, San Francisco, CA
1975 Photographs, Smithsonian Magazine, Washington, DC
Photographs, “Defenders”, The Magazine of Defenders Wildlife, Washington, DC
1976 Photographs, “Joy of Nature”, Readers’ Digest Books, New York, NY
Photographs, “Buildings of the Tallgrass Prairie”, American Institute of Architects Journal, July
Photographs, “The Nebraska State Capitol”, AIA Journal, October, Cover photograph and inside
Photographs, “Kansas”, Bicentennial Book Series
1977 Photographs, Sierra Club Bulletin, San Francisco, CA
Photographs, Time-Life Books, Nature/Science Annual, Alexandria, VA
Cover Photograph, Kansas Historic Quarterly, Summer, 1977
1978 Photographs and Text, Outside Magazine, San Francisco, CA
Photographs, Meisel Forum, feature story, Dallas, TX
Photograph, Smithsonian Magazine, December
Photographs, Kansas City Magazine, Kansas City, MO
Photographs, Missouri Conservationist, December
Photographs, The New York Times, March 19, New York, NY
Photographs, Farmland News, November
1978 Photographs, Preservation News, November
Cover and inside photographs, National Science Teachers’ Magazine, December
1979 Photographs, My Weekly Reader, Middletown, NJ
Photographs, Missouri AAA Magazine, January
Photographs and book excerpt, Outdoor America, (Izaak Walton League), January
Photographs, Horticulture Magazine, January
Photographs, Science News, January
Photographs, The Living Wilderness, Spring
Photographs and text, Travel and Leisure Magazine, New York, NY
Special Supplement, “Kansas City”, American Institute of Architects Journal
Photographs and text, Modern Maturity, Long Beach, CA
  Photograph, National Wildlife, Milwaukee, WI
  Assistant and Consultant, Life Magazine, New York, NY
1980 Cover, EPA National Journal, Washington, DC
  Cover, Kansas Fish and Game, Pratt, KS
  Cover Kansas City Star, Travel, Kansas City, MO
  Cover for book, From Heaven to the Prairie, TWP Publishing, Menlo Park, CA
  Double page photo, American Illustrated, (Russian Language Magazine), International Communication Agency, Washington, DC
  Text and Photographs, Animals Magazine, Boston, MA
1981 Photographs, Iowa’s Natural Heritage (book), Iowa Academy of Science, Ames, IA
  Funk and Wagnall’s Encyclopedia
1982 Photographs, “The Haunted Plains”, Outside Magazine, May
  Photographs, “The Prairie” (Special Section), Wichita Eagle-Beacon, Wichita, KS
1983 Photographs, Kansas in Color (book), Kansas University Press, Lawrence, KS
1984 Article and Photographs, “Inside Fort Leavenworth”, Travel and Leisure Magazine, New York, NY
  Photographs, The Hunting and Fishing Library, Publication Arts, Inc., Minetonka, MN
  Photograph, Sierra Magazine, Sierra Club, San Francisco, CA
  Photograph, Architecture Magazine, American Institute of Architects, Washington, DC Yearbook, Chicago, IL
  Photographs, Natural Kansas, Joseph T. Collins, ed., University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  Cover Photograph, Kansas City Arts Council Calendar
1987 Photographs, “Tale of the Tallgrass”, Sierra Magazine, Sierra Club, San Francisco, CA
1990 Photograph and Essay, “Dialogue With the Land”, The Helicon 9 Reader, Gloria Vando Hickok, ed., Kansas City, MO
1991 Painting, “Assemblage”, Kansas City Art Institute Magazine, Fall, Kansas City, MO
2001 Taking Root, the Art of Patricia DuBose Duncan, Exhibition Catalog, Beach Museum of Art
  Article and Paintings, Kansas City Home Design, “On the Town”, Ann Slegman
  Article and Photographs of Work, “Prairie as Palette”, Missouri Prairie Journal, Summer, Vol. 22, No. 3
   
ONE PERSON TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS
   
1976-1986 “The Tallgrass Prairie:  An American Landscape”, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (all 50 states)
1980-1982 “From the Prairie” ; fifty 16" x 20" type C prints