Des Moines River, North Fort Dodge, 1924
by Robert Alden Reaser
Pastel on canvas mounted on panel
Gift of Pat and Mary Casey
BCF 2010.05

Robert Alden Reaser was born April 1898 in New York City and died in 1980 in Palm Beach, Florida. His father, Willbur Aaron Reaser [1860 – 1942], was a well known painter in his time. His father’s family had moved from Ohio to Fort Dodge shortly after Willbur’s birth. His mother Cora May Conlee was born in Fort Dodge in 1863, the daughter of Andrew Jackson Conlee and Emily Jane Bledsoe. Cora Conlee Reaser was [...]

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Eva Funderburgh [American, born 1982]
City Beast, 2009
Wood-Fire Kiln Ceramic
BCF – Blanden Charitable Foundation

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Rose Katz Cabat (Born in Bronx, New York in 1914)
Turquoise and Gold Vessel, Circa 1989
Glazed Stoneware
4.5″ Height x 2.75″ Diameter
Gift of Catherine Vincent Deardorf
BCF 1989.05

Rose Cabat’s small, gourd-like shape narrowing to a one-quarter inch opening from a short narrow neck has a unique sense of satiny texture when held. The softness of the thin liquid glaze over a stoneware body polished before being fired to a luxurious smoothness [...]

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Madai Taylor (Born Lake Village, Arkansas 1955)
Bendito, Bendito, Bendito, 1995
Acrylic, Dirt, Rust on Paper
71″ Height x 49″ Width
Purchased by the Blanden Charitable Foundation
BCF 1996.11

Energy and experimentation are two words that describe Bendito, Bendito, Bendito. Literally earthbound with its specks of dirt embedded in the reddish-brown or that acrylic paint that roughly demarcates a rectangular plot of ground, yet strongly invoking the heavens and the spiritual with three circles firmly [...]

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Mexico, Colima Dog, 300-600 CE
Ceramic, Pigment
8.5″ Length x 6.5″ Height x 6.5″ Width
From the John J. Brady Jr. Estate
BCF 1990.22

Colima pottery is some of the liveliest in Ancient Mexico. Leaving behind no stone cities or other lasting evidence of their lives, what we know about this western coast culture comes primarily from the ceramics found in distinctive shaft tombs. Even what they called themselves is unknown, and they are referred to by the contemporary name of the region where their art is found. However, we can [...]

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Jacues Clement Wagrez
French, 1846-1909
Fencer On The Stairway, 1883
Oil on canvas
155.6 cm. x 84.8 cm.
Gift of Mrs. O. M. Oleson
Acc. No. 1970.50

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Sharf, Frederic A. and Peter Harrington. The Boxer Rebellion: The Artists’ Perspective, London: Greenhill Books, 2000

The calligraphic applique on the vest indicates the wearer to have been a foot soldier with the Boxer forces in China. The Boxers were a secret society from the north of China, which believed that foreign influences. especially in trade and religion, were harming [...]

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CYRK (Circus series…Lion)
1975 by Hubert Hilscher
[Polish, 1924-1999]
BMAM: Gift of Mrs. Mary Jane Sayles 1971.06

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Cadiz,1952 Oil on canvas
Robert Motherwell [American, 1915-1991]
BMAM: Gift of Miss Ann Smeltzer

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Schimmer, 1930, Watercolor and ink on paper
Wassily Kandinsky
[German/Russian/French, 1866-1944]
BMAM: Gift of Miss Ann Smeltzer

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