INDIANS VS. THE UNION PACIFIC "A band of Indians, ten or twelve in number, attacked one of Shoemaker, Miller & Co. trains,
seventeen miles west of Coyote [in present northern Gove county], at about
noon today, and burned three freight cars on a side track, tore down the telegraph poles, and
destroyed a portion of the track. They also attempted to throw a construction train from the track,
but failed. A number of other Indians were seen at some distance off, but how many was not
known." From the Marysville Enterprise, May 16, 1868
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The Language of Art exhibit will feature painters
Philomene Bennett, Rita Blitt, Jane Booth, John Gary Brown, Bev Gegen, Ken Grizzell, Heather Smith Jones, Lisa Lala, Bill McCall, Leland Powers, Terri Schmidt, Jane Slimon, Richard Slimon, Noelle Stoffel, and
Rodney Troth; with steel sculpture by Don Osborn; and glass vessels by Chad Fonfara, and Mark Halva; contemporary realist painter "Allegories and Alllusions" show by Lacey Lewis; and color photography by Janice Lee; Exhibit runs Aug. 3 - Sept. 15; Strecker-Nelson Gallery, 406½ Poyntz, Manhattan
Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist, the first nationally touring retrospective of the work of Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), the foremost visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance. A native of Topeka, Kansas, Douglas captured the spirit of his time and established a new black aesthetic and utopian vision. Working from a politicized concept of personal identity, he combined angular cubist rhythms and seductive art-deco dynamism with traditional African and African American imagery to develop a radically new visual vocabulary that evoked both current realities and hopes for a better future. In paintings, murals, and illustrations for books and progressive journals, his ideas and their artistic form produced the most powerful visual legacy of the Harlem Renaissance; curated by Susan Earle, curator of European and American art and coordinated by Stephanie Knappe, doctoral candidate in art history; Spencer Museum of Art, Sept. 8 – Dec. 2, Lawrence
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