Harvey Dunn
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For other people named Harvey Dunn, see Harvey Dunn (disambiguation).
Harvey Thomas Dunn NA, also known as J. Harvey Dunn (March 8, 1884 ā October 29, 1952),[1] was an American painter and teacher. During World War I, Dunn was an artist-correspondent with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe. Most of Dunn's war sketches are housed at the Smithsonian Institution in the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. He is best known for his prairie-intimate masterpiece, The Prairie is My Garden (1950).[2] In this painting, a mother and her two children are out gathering flowers from the quintessential prairie of the Great Plains.
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Born | Harvey Thomas Dunn (1884-03-08)March 8, 1884 Manchester, South Dakota, U.S. |
Died | October 29, 1952(1952-10-29) (aged 68) Tenafly, New Jersey, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Other names | J. Harvey Dunn |
Style | Brandywine School |
Spouse | Johanne (Krebs) Dunn |
Awards | Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from the South Dakota State College (1951) |
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