Dan Jones: Charcoal
Laurel Reuter, Editor North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
Dan Jones: Charcoal was underwritten by David Hasbargen and Wayne Zimmerman Karen Severtsen and Dirk Lenthe Karen Stoker
With additional support from Arctic Audio and Ellen and Rod Shafer Anna Arnar and Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat Jeanne E. Aske David and Cynthia Baumgardner Julie Blehm Richard and Nancy Callender Marlon Davidson and Don Knudson Robert and Virginia Dunnigan Forum Communications Great Plains Claims, Inc. Zhimin Guan and Weiwei �uin Dan and Jill Gustafson
Brian Hayer Kim and Beth Holmes Jim Hovland and LaRae Ellingson-Hovland Lee and Cynthia Kaldor Marjorie Knox Timothy and Anne McLarnan Carl Oltvedt Brian and Dianne Paulsen Laurel Reuter Norm Robinson and Deb Dawson Carol Rogne Matt Wallace
David Hasbargen and Wayne Zimmerman in memory of Sue Beithon Published by the North Dakota Museum of Art 261 Centennial Drive Stop 7305 Grand Forks, ND 58202 USA Phone: (1) 701 777- 4195 Fax : (1) 701 777- 4425 ndmoa@ndmoa.com www.ndmoa.org © North Dakota Museum of Art © Dan Jones for his images All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission in writing of the copyright holders and publisher. ISBN: 0-943107-23-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2013930774 Printed and bound in Canada by Kildonan Printing Photographs by Gregory Vettel Cover (detail) and opposite: FIELD ROAD, 2011. Charcoal, 28 x 21 inches. Back cover: PLOWED FIELD, 2012. Oil stick on Yupo watercolor paper, 8.5 x 11.5 inches.
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A Man and a Place, Laurel Reuter, OVERPASS* Musings, Terry Jelsing Becoming an Artist, Dan Jones and Laurel Reuter, SELF-P ORTRAIT FARMSTEAD DOWNRIVER , DISTANT FARM WOOD DUCK HOUSE, LIGHTNING STRIKE CLEARING SKY, SHELTER BELT SPRING CALVES OUTBUILDING, PLOWED FIELD R ECEDING FIELDS WINTER , SPRING SUMMER , FALL NOCTURNE II WHISKEY CREEK, PROPERTY LINE LIGHT HOUSE AT T WO HARBORS, LOST CREEK HORSE BARN, ALLEY VIEW ELEVATOR , TOOL SHED R ED R IVER COUNTRY ROAD, SHADD’S BARN TREE LINES, ECHO BAY CLEARING SKY, BALES ON HILL FIELD PATTERNS, NOCTURNE (MOONLIGHT) FIELD EDGE SPRAY, SUNBATHER ABOUT THE ARTIST ABOUT THE MUSEUM COLOPHON
* Title of drawings