Crazy Boys Lodge
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Title
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Crazy Boys Lodge
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Creator
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Neil Parsons
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Artist ID
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47
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Date of Work
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1986
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Description
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Abstract painting in geometric shapes - paint in blues, purples, tans, and black. Bottom right corner includes floral fabric.
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Category of Media
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Painting/mixed media on canvas/board/etc
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Media
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mixed media on canvas paper
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Accession Number
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1990.001
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Location
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COM Building, 3rd floor, back of hallway near performance hall
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Date Acquired
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481990
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Acquisition Method
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donation, unrestricted
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Dimensions of Work
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15.5" x 15.5"
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Frame Dimensions
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27.25" x 27.25"
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Frame Type
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Gold Steel
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Donor or Seller
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Parsons
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Donor ID
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47
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Artist Bio
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Neil Parsons is a Blackfeet Indigenous Art artist who was born in 1938. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts have featured Neil Parsons's work in the past.
"My work is about my inner experiences as a painter, who happens to be of Blackfeet Indian descent," said the artist. "In this context, I find that I have returned full-circle, to a form of pictorial expression combining my training and experience as an abstract expressionist with that of a deeper vision of design making. For years I was inspired by 'action painting' and the need to 'paint like a white man'... but during a recent stay in New York, I was to stumble upon a small unpublished series of folded monoprints by Andy Warhol, which ignited a flame of symmetrical composition not unlike the floral or geometric designs of my native forefathers...."
Sources: https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Neil-Parsons/B2147D8FFDA6BEC4/Biography
https://missoulaartmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/creator/C9049353-5E41-4F56-8C23-186139981370
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Abstract
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"My paintings are about the wind rushing over the mountains and across the plains, of cool crystal waters coursing through the banks of rivers and streams, of distant ridges against the sky, and of wildflowers and sage..."
Source: Evergreen Art Collection Archives
