CAREER SUMMARY
PATRICIA DuBOSE DUNCAN, ARTIST
Kansas City Star Supplement Sunday April 22, 2001
| b. |
1932, Nashville, Tennessee |
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| 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 | |
| 1957 | Women's City Club, Kansas City, MO | |
| 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 | |
| 1976-1986 | The Tallgrass Prairie: An American Landscape | |
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Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition
Service
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Nationwide, all 50
states; exhibit locations included:
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| Crown Center Multi-Media Forum, Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, MO | ||
| Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS | ||
| Bell Museum, Minneapolis, MN | ||
| Stuhr Museum, Grand Island, NE | ||
| Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL | ||
| The Octagon, Washington, DC | ||
| Union Carbide Corporate Gallery, New York, NY | ||
| Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO | ||
| 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 / 40 Year Retrospective | |
| Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME | ||
| 1991 | Leedy-Voukos Gallery, Kansas City, MO | |
| 1995 | The Writers’ Place, Kansas City, MO | |
| 1997 | Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, ME | |
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2001
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50 Year Retrospective Taking Root, Albrecht-Kemper ,Marianna Kistler | |
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Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS |
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| 2002 | 50 Year Retrospective 50 Years of Art, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art | |
| JURIED AND INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS (Selected) | ||
| 1954 | Mid-America Annual, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 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, Kansas City, MO | |
| 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, | |
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Kansas City, MO
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| 1994 | Land and its Uses: Photographs from the Collection, Spencer Museum of Art, | |
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Kansas University,
Lawrence, KS (Curated by John Szarkowski)
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| 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 | |
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2010 |
Photographing Maine - Ten Years Later 2000-2009 | |
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Group
Show, Center for Maine Contemporary Art,
Rockport, ME
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| 2013 | The 50+ Exhibition Celebrating Success, group show, School of Fine Arts, | |
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Washington
University, St. Louis
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| 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 | ||
| Gordon Parks Center, Fort Scott, KS | ||
| Museum of the Prairie, Bethel College, North Newton, KS | ||
| Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, MO | ||
| Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University | ||
| Jim and Lolly Mitchell, Camden, ME | ||
| 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., Kansas City, MO | ||
| Dr. Antonio Racela, Kansas City, MO | ||
| Karen Lewis, Portland, ME | ||
| Gloria Vando Hickok, New York, NY | ||
| Mr. & Mrs. Norman Kahn, Kansas City, MO | ||
| Mr. & Mrs. Charles Scribner, New York, NY | ||
| Senator Nancy Kassebaum (Ret.) Burdick, KS | ||
| Mrs. Peter Michelena, Camden, ME | ||
| Winfield & Nancy Padgett, Camden, ME and Dallas, TX | ||
| Margaret Lee Blunt, Burlingame, CA | ||
| Mr. & Mrs. Jack Nixon, San Rafael, CA | ||
| Ren Wilkinson and Jane Ryan, Hollis Center, ME | ||
| AWARDS AND GRANTS (Selected) | ||
| 1956 | United States Navy Grant, Sasebo, JAPAN | |
| 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 | |
| 1974-1975 | Grant, Hallmark Cards, Inc. | |
| 1975-1976 | Grant, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition, S.I.T.E.S. | |
| 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 Alumni 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 | |
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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 | |
| Kansas University, Lawrence, KS | ||
| 1976 | Aspen Design Institute, Aspen, CO | |
| 1979 | Washington University, Visiting Artist Series, St. Louis, MO | |
| 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 |
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| 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 | Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS | |
| 2005 | Gordon Parks Symposium, Ft. Scott, KS | |
| 2014 | Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS | |
| COLLECTIONS (Special) | ||
| 1975 | Project Documerica – Patricia DuBose Duncan | |
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A project of the
Environmental Protection Agency
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The Culture
of the Prairie, 173 photographs
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| 1986-2014 | The Patricia DuBose Duncan Papers, personal papers and photographs | |
Spencer Research Library
and Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas University
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| 1997 | The Patricia DuBose Duncan Archives, National Park Service Great Plains Program | |
| 2001 | The Patricia Dubose Duncan Collection, paintings and photographs | |
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Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas
State University
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| 2003 | The Patricia Duncan Gordon Parks Archive, texts and photographs | |
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Gordon Parks Center,
Fort Scott, KS.
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| 2010 | Save the Tallgrass Prairie Collection, University Archives and Manuscript | |
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Kansas State Libraries,
Manhattan, KS
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| MURALS AND COMMISSIONED INSTALLATIONS | ||
| 1957 | Mural, United States Navy Officers’ Club, Sasebo, JAPAN, oil on canvas, 5' x 15' | |
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Subject: Kiu-ju-kiu-shima, Ninety-Nine
Islands
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| 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, The Konza Prairie, 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'', 1% For Art | |
| Amalgamated Meatcutters Local #567, Cattle Roundup, Kansas City, MO, 3'x 5' Mural | ||
| Jensen-Salsbury Laboratories, Chromogenic photograph, Kansas City, MO | ||
| Kansas Department of Economic Development, Chromogenic photograph, Topeka, KS | ||
| 1981 | Kansas University Medical Center, Chromogenic photograph, Kansas City, KS | |
| Olathe Kansas Public Library, Chromogenic photograph, Olathe, KS | ||
| 1985 | Wichita Eagle-Beacon, Wichita, KS | |
| 1991 | Kansas City International Airport, Chromogenic photograph | |
| 2001 | Convention Center, painting Prairie Fire, acrylic on canvas, Overland Park, KS | |
| 2005 | Gordon Parks Center, photographs, Cromogenic prints, Ft. Scott, KS | |
| BOARDS AND APPOINTMENTS | ||
| 1973 | Founder, Save the Tallgrass Prairie, Inc. | |
| 1976 | Founder, Grassland Heritage Foundation | |
| 1980-1987 | Member, Kansas City Municipal Art Commission | |
| 1980-present | Trustee Emeritus, Nature Conservancy, Missouri Chapter | |
| 1985-1988 | Board Member, Society for Contemporary Photography | |
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Kansas City, MO
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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 | |
| 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, National Public Radio and Television, Manhattan, KS | ||
| 1982 | WNET TV-13, New York City, “Carl Sandberg”, still photographs. | |
| Produced
by Perry Miller Adato |
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| 1986 | PBS, Moments Without Proper Names, The Life and Work of Gordon Parks | |
| Produced by Past America, Inc., still photography
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| 1991 | KSHB, Channel 41, AM Live, Kansas City, MO | |
| MULTI-MEDIA | ||
| 1976 | Tallgrass Prairie: The Inland Sea, 30 minute/9 projector, 3 screen presentation | |
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Slide and sound Master Copy at Hallmark Multimedia
Forum
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| BOOKS | ||
| 1964 | Seesaw, one of a kind artist’s book | |
| 1979 | Tallgrass Prairie: The Inland Sea, Lowell Press, Kansas City, MO | |
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Photographs and text, 116 pages, 1978
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| 1985 | No Time for Sandcastles, unpublished | |
| 1995 | Paris Days, Unpublished | |
| 2014 | An Artist in Paris: A Feast of Days, 122 pages, 2014 | |
| CONSULTANT WORK | ||
| 1979 | Life Magazine with Gordon Parks | |
| National Geographic Magazine | ||
| 1980 | Time Magazine | |
| 1985 | Newsweek Magazine | |
| PUBLISHED WORK (Selected items) | ||
| 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 | |
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Environmental
Action, Washington, DC
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| 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 | |
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Sierra Club, San
Francisco,
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| 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, Preservation News, November | ||
| Cover and inside photographs, National Science Teachers’ Magazine, December | ||
| Photographs, Buildings of the Tallgrass Prairie | ||
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American Institute of
Architects Journal, July
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| Photographs, The Nebraska State Capitol, AIA Journal, October | ||
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Cover
photograph and inside
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| 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 | ||
| 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) | ||
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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 | |
| 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 | |
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New York, NY
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| 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 | ||
| 1985 | Article and Photographs, The Tallgrass Prairie, World Book EncyclopediaYearbook | |
| Photographs, Natural Kansas, Joseph T. Collins, ed., University Press of Kansas | ||
| 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 | |
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Gloria Vando Hickok, ed., Kansas
City, MO
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| 1991 | Painting, Assemblage, Kansas City Art Institute Magazine, Fall, Kansas City, MO | |
| 2001 | Taking Root, the Art of Patricia DuBose Duncan, Retrospective Catalog | |
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Designed
by Bill North, Marianna Kistler 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 | ||
| Pat’s Prairie, Kansas City Star Magazine, April 22, 2001, Cover, 7 page article | ||
| 2002 | 50 Years of Art, Retrospective Hand-Out, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art | |
| ONE PERSON TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 1976-1986 | The Tallgrass Prairie: An American Landscape | |
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Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition
Service
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Original copy retired at Kansas State University in 1986
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| 1980-1982 | From the Prairie, Fifty 16" x 20" type C prints | |
| 2014 | Forty panels in Smithsonian Institution Traveling Service Bicentennial Exhibition, | |
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The Tallgrass
Prairie: An American Landscape
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Panels digitally reproduced November 2014 at Kansas State University
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The Lowell Press, Kansas City, MO, 1978