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Mandan
Mandan
Mandan

Mandan

Artist (American, 1939 - 2019)
Publisher (founded 1919)
Date2001
Mediumlithograph
DimensionsImage: 9 1/8 × 16 3/4 in. (23.2 × 42.5 cm)
Plate Mark (Stone Impression): 15 7/8 × 19 1/4 in. (40.3 × 48.9 cm)
Support: 19 3/4 × 25 3/4 in. (50.2 × 65.4 cm)
ClassificationsGraphic
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds provided by Luke Sullivan in honor of his parents, Patrick and Mary, for their limitless love & innumerable gifts and graces; and in honor of Gendron Jensen, for a life courageously and gracefully loved, 2012
Object number2012.32.14
DescriptionTwo buffalo hooves, side by side, forming a circular void, float in the center of the paper
Text Entries
Gendron Jensen has been working in northern New Mexico since 1987. Working directly from nature as a realist, Jensen’s work reflects an homage to the natural world and an interest in the taxonomies that comprise it. He often works with specimens studied in natural museum collections or found in nature. At the same time, Jensen takes certain liberties with the bones, combining bones of distinct animals, for example, to tell a broader narrative. The New Mexico Museum of Art is the only museum to represent Gendron Jensen’s complete works in printmaking, which has been an important aspect of his artistic practice since he was in a Benedictine monastery during his 20s and worked in the monastery print shop. According the the artist, “this configuration is derived from two buffalo hooves found  in an archeological dig by Philip J. Thompson and his brother, Ralph.  … Bison, bison, from Mandan Native American campsite, Emmons County, on East Side of Missouri River, near Bismarck, North Dakota in 1975.”
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