South Dakota Arts Council

South Dakota Arts Council

Pierre, SD

The SDAC is a state government grantmaking agency supported by the State of South Dakota, through the Dept. of Tourism, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Spring Pasture by Carl Grupp Image: “Some thoughts on chaos and order in regard to my mountain paintings. If a cat walked on my keyboard we might have chaos L:IPDHS3IOIONO29032-2JN [] [==M, It is not, call me Ishmael, carefully chosen words, sentence structure, punctuation, rhythm of speech patterns, words, musical notes, colored marks in tension with one another to create a feeling, an impression, a memory … a painting of the landscape grown out of my own memories, heartbeats. I am not a mathematician by any stretch of the word, but I have discovered that what I enjoy is the distance between things.”
“Some thoughts on chaos and order in regard to my mountain paintings. If a cat walked on my keyboard we might have chaos L:IPDHS3IOIONO29032-2JN [] [==M, It is not, call me Ishmael, carefully chosen words, sentence structure, punctuation, rhythm of speech patterns, words, musical notes, colored marks in tension with one another to create a feeling, an impression, a memory … a painting of the landscape grown out of my own memories, heartbeats. I am not a mathematician by any stretch of the word, but I have discovered that what I enjoy is the distance between things.”
Spring Pasture by Carl Grupp
  • Carl Grupp
  • Spring Pasture, 2004
  • Watercolor
  • Framed: 30 x 40 in (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

Collection: Art For State Buildings x

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Carl Grupp earned a Bachelor of Arts in painting from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1964. In 1965 he traveled through Europe and studied at the Art Student Vrije Academie in The Hague, Netherlands. He went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from Indiana University in 1969. From 1969 until 2004, Carl was a professor at Augustana University in Sioux Falls, chairing the art department from 1986-2002. Carl founded the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana University, with an ambitious exhibitions program and permanent art collection, which is now named for him.

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