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Patricia DuBose Duncan
CAREER SUMMARY
| b. |
1932, Nashville, Tennessee |
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| EDUCATION |
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| 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 |
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| ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
(Selected)
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| 1956 |
Toraya
Gallery, Sasebo, Japan |
| 1956 |
Toraya
Gallery, Sasebo, Japan |
| 1964 |
Spiva
Gallery of Art, Joplin, MO
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| 1970 |
Jewish
Community Center, Kansas City, MO
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| 1972 |
Johnson
County Library, Topeka, KS |
| 1973 |
Topeka
Public Library, Topeka, KS |
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Kansas
City Museum of Science and History, Kansas City, MO
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Marymount
College, Salina, KS
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Century
II Gallery (Wichita Civic Gallery), Wichita, KS
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| 1974 |
Bethel
College, North Newton, KS
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| 1976 |
Crown
Center Multi-Media Forum, Kansas City, MO
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Kansas
State University, Manhattan, KS
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Bell
Museum, Minneapolis, MN
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| 1976-1986 |
See
Smithsonian Schedule (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service)
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| 1977 |
Stuhr
Museum, Grand Island, NE |
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Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
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| The
Octagon, Washington, DC
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| Union
Carbide, Corporate Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1978 |
Aspen
Institute, Aspen, CO |
| 1979 |
Sears
Corporate Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| 1980 |
Nikon
House, New York, NY
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Albrecht
Art Museum, St. Joseph, MO
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| 1981 |
Kansas
University Regents Center, Kansas City, MO
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| 1985 |
Central
Exchange Gallery, Kansas City, MO
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| 1988 |
Anne
Weber Gallery, Georgetown, ME |
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Unity
College, Unity, ME
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| 1989 |
Society
of Contemporary Photography Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
| 1990 |
University
of Southern Maine, Portland ME
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Caldbeck
Gallery, Rockland, ME
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| 1991 |
Leedy-Voukos
Gallery, Kansas City, MO
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| 1995 |
The
Writers’ Place, Kansas City, MO |
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Maine
Coast Artists, Rockport, ME
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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 |
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| JURIED AND INVITATIONAL
EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
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| 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
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| 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 |
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“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 |
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“Reuben
Saunders Gallery Presents”, Wichita, KS
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“Urban
Landscapes”, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
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“Full
Spectrum”, Messing Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
| 1986 |
Group
Invitational, Messing Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
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Maine
Photographic Workshops, Juried Annual, New York, NY |
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“Sequences”,
Union Hill Arts, Kansas City, MO |
| 1987 |
Mid-Four
Exhibition, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
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“Reconstructed
Landscapes”, Santa Fe, NM |
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Juried
Members Show, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO |
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“American
Color”, University of New Mexico traveling exhibition |
| 1988 |
“Art
in the Woods”, Overland Park, KS |
| 1989 |
Dean
Valentgas Gallery, Portland, ME |
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Women’s
Art Registry of Minneapolis, MN |
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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 |
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“Art
Ex Machina”, Richmond, VA |
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“The
Boat in 20th Century Art”, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME |
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“Beyond
Black & White”, Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME |
| 1990-1991 |
“Midwest
Invitational VI”, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI
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| 1991 |
Kansas
City Artists Coalition Members’ Annual, Kansas City, MO |
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“Maine
Photographers”, Portland School of Art, Portland, ME |
| 1993 |
“Photographers
from the Permanent Collection”, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas
City, MO
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| 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
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| 2002-2004 |
Art
In Embassies Program, Tokyo, Japan
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| 2002 |
“Fish,
Flowers and Flying Things”, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
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| 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
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| 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 |
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| COLLECTIONS (Selected)
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| Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC
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| 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 |
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| Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art,
St. Joseph, MO |
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| Beach Museum of Art, Kansas
State University, Manhattan, KS |
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| Kansas State University,
Manhattan, KS
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| Kauffman Museum, Bethel
College, North Newton, KS |
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| Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas
City, MO |
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| Crown Center Corporation,
Kansas City, MO |
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| Hyatt Regency Hotels |
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| Mercantile Bank, Kansas City,
MO |
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| Environmental Protection
Agency, Washington, DC |
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| City of Kansas City, MO |
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| City of Overland Park, KS |
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| Polsinelli, White &
Vardeman, Kansas City, MO |
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| Alexander & Alexander,
Kansas City, MO |
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| Frankona America Life
Reassurance Company, Kansas City, MO |
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| United Missouri Bank, Kansas
City, MO |
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| Shook, Hardy & Bacon,
Kansas City, MO |
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| KC Southern Industries, Kansas
City, MO |
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| Duncan Stark Wilson Architects,
Inc |
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| Dr. Antonio Racela, Kansas
City, MO |
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| Karen Lewis, Portland, ME |
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| Mr. & Mrs. William Hickok,
Kansas City, MO |
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| Mr. & Mrs. Norman Kahn,
Kansas City, MO |
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| Mr. & Mrs. Charles
Scribner, New York, NY |
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| Senator Nancy Kassebaum (Ret.)
Burdick, KS
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| Kent Keatinge, Camden, ME |
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| Winfield & Nancy Padgett,
Camden, ME and Dallas, TX |
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| Margaret Lee Blunt, Burlingame,
CA
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| Mr. & Mrs. Jack Nixon, San
Rafael, CA |
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| AWARDS AND GRANTS (Selected) |
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| 1956 |
USN
Grant, Mural, JAPAN, oil on canvas |
| 1969 |
Award,
Juried Show, Chicago Artists Guild |
| 1971 |
Grant,
Kansas City Trusts and Foundations |
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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 |
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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 |
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Active
Sponsor Purchase Award, Mid-Four Exhibition, Kansas City, MO |
| 1992 |
Residency,
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FRANCE |
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TEACHING POSITIONS AND
GUEST LECTURES (Selected) |
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| 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
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| 1987 |
Haystack
Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME |
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Unity
College, Unity, ME
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| 1989 |
Society
of Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO |
| 1991 |
Farnsworth
Museum, Rockland, ME |
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Albrecht-Kemper
Museum, St. Joseph, MO |
| 2001 |
Beach
Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS |
| 2005 |
Gordon
Parks Symposium, Ft. Scott, KS |
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| COLLECTIONS
(Special) |
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|
| 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. |
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| COMMISSIONS |
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| 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' |
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Photo-Mural,
Emporia Public Library, Emporia, KS, 5' x 8'
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| 1980 |
Photo-Mural,
Fire Station #4, City of Kansas City, MO, 4'-1/2'' x 8'-1/2'' (one-
percent for art program) |
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| PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS
(Selected)
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| 1980 |
Amalgamated
Meatcutters Local #567, President’s Office, Kansas City, MO, 3'x 5' Mural
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Jensen-Salsbury
Laboratories, Kansas City, MO |
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Kansas
Department of Economic Development, Topeka, KS |
| 1981 |
Kansas
University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS |
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Olathe
Kansas Public Library, Olathe, KS |
| 1985 |
Wichita
Eagle-Beacon, Wichita, KS |
| 1991 |
Kansas
City International Airport
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| 1998 |
Beach
Museum of Art, Kansas State University |
| 2001 |
Convention
Center, Overland Park, KS |
| 2005 |
Gordon
Parks Center, Ft. Scott, KS |
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| BOARDS AND APPOINTMENTS |
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| 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 |
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RADIO (Selected)
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| 1977 |
NPR,
“All Things Considered”, Washington, DC
|
| 1980 |
KCUR
FM Kansas City, special interview
|
| 1985 |
“Newsweek
On Air” |
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| TELEVISION (Selected) |
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| 1973 |
NBC,
“Today Show” |
| 1975 |
NBC,
“Today Show” |
| 1976 |
ABC,
CBS Kansas City, MO
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| 1978 |
CBS
Denver, CO |
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CBS
St. Joseph, MO |
| 1979 |
NBC
St. Louis, MO |
| 1981 |
KCPT,
Channel 19, Kansas City, MO |
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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” |
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| MULTI-MEDIA |
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| 1976 |
“Tallgrass
Prairie: The Inland Sea”, 30
minute/9 projector, 3 screen presentation. Master
Copy – Hallmark Multimedia Forum |
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| BOOKS |
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| 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 |
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| CONSULTANT WORK |
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| 1979 |
Life
Magazine with Gordon Parks |
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National
Geographic Magazine |
| 1980 |
Time Magazine |
| 1985 |
Newsweek Magazine |
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| PUBLISHED WORK (Selected) |
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| 1971 |
Photographs
and Text, “The Tallgrass Country of Kansas”, American Forests Magazine |
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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 |
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“Portraits
of the Prairie”, Washington University Magazine, St. Louis, MO
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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
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Photographs, Hiking and Ski Touring, Colorado Springs, CO |
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Photographs, United Systems Quarterly, United Telecom, Inc., Fairway, KS |
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Photographs, Sierra Club Bulletin, San Francisco, CA |
| 1975 |
Photographs, Smithsonian Magazine, Washington, DC
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Photographs,
“Defenders”, The Magazine of Defenders Wildlife, Washington, DC |
| 1976 |
Photographs,
“Joy of Nature”, Readers’ Digest Books, New York, NY |
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Photographs,
“Buildings of the Tallgrass Prairie”, American Institute of Architects Journal, July |
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Photographs,
“The Nebraska State Capitol”, AIA Journal, October, Cover
photograph and inside |
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Photographs,
“Kansas”, Bicentennial Book Series |
| 1977 |
Photographs, Sierra Club Bulletin, San Francisco, CA |
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Photographs, Time-Life Books, Nature/Science Annual, Alexandria, VA |
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Cover
Photograph, Kansas Historic Quarterly, Summer, 1977 |
| 1978 |
Photographs
and Text, Outside Magazine, San Francisco, CA |
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Photographs, Meisel Forum, feature story, Dallas, TX |
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Photograph, Smithsonian Magazine, December |
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Photographs, Kansas City Magazine, Kansas City, MO |
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Photographs, Missouri Conservationist, December |
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Photographs, The New York Times, March 19, New York, NY
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Photographs, Farmland News, November |
| 1978 |
Photographs, Preservation News, November |
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Cover and inside photographs, National
Science Teachers’ Magazine, December |
| 1979 |
Photographs, My Weekly Reader, Middletown, NJ |
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Photographs, Missouri AAA Magazine, January |
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Photographs and book excerpt, Outdoor America, (Izaak
Walton League), January |
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Photographs, Horticulture Magazine, January |
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Photographs, Science News, January |
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Photographs, The Living Wilderness, Spring
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Photographs and text, Travel and Leisure Magazine, New
York, NY |
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Special Supplement, “Kansas City”, American Institute of
Architects Journal |
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Photographs and text, Modern Maturity, Long Beach, CA |
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Photograph, National Wildlife, Milwaukee, WI |
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Assistant and Consultant, Life Magazine, New York, NY |
| 1980 |
Cover, EPA National Journal, Washington, DC |
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Cover, Kansas Fish and Game, Pratt, KS |
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Cover Kansas City Star, Travel, Kansas City, MO |
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Cover
for book, From Heaven to the Prairie, TWP Publishing, Menlo Park, CA |
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Double
page photo, American Illustrated, (Russian Language Magazine),
International Communication
Agency, Washington, DC
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Text
and Photographs, Animals Magazine, Boston, MA |
| 1981 |
Photographs, Iowa’s Natural
Heritage (book), Iowa Academy of Science, Ames, IA |
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Funk and Wagnall’s Encyclopedia |
| 1982 |
Photographs,
“The Haunted Plains”, Outside Magazine, May |
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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 |
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Photographs, The Hunting and Fishing Library, Publication Arts, Inc., Minetonka, MN |
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Photograph, Sierra Magazine, Sierra Club, San Francisco, CA |
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Photograph, Architecture Magazine, American Institute of Architects, Washington, DC Yearbook,
Chicago, IL |
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Photographs, Natural Kansas, Joseph T. Collins, ed., University Press of Kansas, Lawrence,
KS |
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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 |
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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 |
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| ONE PERSON TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS |
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| 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 |
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