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The Indiana Dunes Revisited – Frank V. Dudley and the 1917 Dunes Pageant (Paperback)
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The Indiana Dunes Revisited – Frank V. Dudley and the 1917 Dunes Pageant (Paperback)
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Born of deaf parents at Delavan, Wisconsin, Frank Dudley
(1868-1957) sketched the rolling hills and lakes of his boyhood
haunts. His love of landscape led him to Chicago and its Art
Institute, with his younger brother Clarence soon to follow. The
two eventually established a portrait photography shop in the Union
Park neighborhood on Chicago's near west side. In the mid-1890s,
Union Park Superintendent Jens Jensen was there experimenting with
his "American Garden" of native prairie plants, just across the
street from the Dudley brothers, boarding together, first on the
east and then the west side of the park. By the turn of that
century, Clarence Dudley and Jens Jensen were in the Indiana Dunes
with their cameras. Beginning in 1896, the Indiana Dunes on Lake
Michigan's southern shore drew the interests of botanist Henry
Chandler Cowles, whose work on plant succession at the University
of Chicago established the Dunes as North America's "birthplace of
ecology." In 1908, Jens Jensen began leading hikes to the Dunes,
later establishing the Prairie Club that took the lead in a
regional conservationist movement. Frank Dudley, established as a
landscape artist in Chicago, followed his brother to the Dunes,
finding purpose for his art and a mission to preserve a landscape.
The 1917 Dunes Pageant brought tens of thousands to Waverly Beach
at the mouth of Dunes Creek to push for a national park. Frank
Dudley painted the scene, devoting his career to painting the Dunes
for the next forty years. As the struggle continues between private
industry and environmentalists, Dudley's pictures of his beloved
Dunes still remind us of the need to protect a fragile landscape.
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Imprint: |
Indiana University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2017 |
Authors: |
James R. Dabbert
• Gregg Hertzlieb
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Dimensions: |
254 x 241 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
150 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-253-03147-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-253-03147-8 |
Barcode: |
9780253031471 |
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