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About Arne Kvaalen
About Arne Kvaalen
Growing up on a homestead in Eastern Montana, I spent much time in the great outdoors, working in the fields, riding horseback, tending cattle, hunting or fishing, cross-country skiing. Landscape always impressed itself on my sensibility. So it was quite natural that as a painter I would be drawn to the landscape genre.
As a boy I loved nature: wild animals, birds, Indian lore, camping in the wild. I read and studied and kept notebooks with drawings to help me remember. The drawings showed talent.
In High School I loved science, math, and biology, where we dissected and drew frogs and grasshoppers. In college I majored in art and began with a minor in chemistry. After the War, the minor was changed to philosophy.
After surviving World War II in the Pacific, while I was in art school in Minneapolis the Lord drew me into faith in Jesus Christ; I became a Christian. It was a life-changing experience. In my enthusiasm, I quit art school, went to Luther Seminary and into the ministry, serving in the Dakotas for seven years before realizing that the Lord was calling me back into art. In the fall of 1959 I resigned from my pastoral work on the campus of the North Dakota State University and moved my family to Iowa City, where we would spend five years while I worked on a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting, with a heavy emphasis on art history.
In May of 1965, as I was about to graduate, Purdue University called me to come to West Lafayette for an interview. After two days on campus, I was hired -- I had not even applied for the job. It was quite unusual; the hand of God was evident. So we moved to Indiana where over the course of a few years I became a painter of the Midwest landscape.
It took a while to acclimate from the West to the Midwest, from Western scenery to the more modest landscape of the heartland. I have found the farmlands, woodlands, stream and rivers, and especially the exotic colors of autumn in Indiana to be more than sufficient inspiration.
Corporate and Museum Collections
Arthur Andersen, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Arthur Andersen, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., St. Louis, Missouri
The Associate Group, Indianapolis, Indiana
Babson Brothers, Inc., Naperville, Illinois
Bank of Highland, Highland, Indiana
Bank One, Indianapolis, Indiana
Central Soya Company, Inc., Fort Wayne, Indiana
Cherokee Bank, St. Paul, Minnesota
Clarian Health Partners, Indianapolis, Indiana
Continental Towers, Indianapolis, Indiana
Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, Iowa
Deloitte and Touche, Oakbrook, Illinois
Educational Financial Services, Indianapolis, Indiana
Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Herndon, Virginia
Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
Eridania Beghin-Say, Inc., Paris, France
Evanston Hospital, Executive Offices, Evanston, Illinois
Fidelity Investments, Indianapolis, Indiana
First Michigan Bank, Holland, Michigan
First United Bank, Sidney, Montana
Frankfort Public Library, Frankfort, Indiana
General Foods, Lafayette, Indiana
Glenbrook Hospital, Glenbrook, Illinois
Hawthorne Golf & Country Club, Indiana
Hyatt-Oakbrook Hotel, Oakbrook, Illinois
Indianapolis-Marion County Libraries, Indiana
Kemper Collection, Long Grove, Illinois
Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Illinois
Klefstad Engineering, Chicago, Illinois
Lilly Industries, Indianapolis, Indiana
Lincolnshire Marriott, Chicago, Illinois
Lomas and Nettleton Company, West Lafayette, Indiana
Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago, Illinois
Mansur Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana
Marsh Supermarkets Corp. Headquarters, Indianapolis, Indiana
MCI Corporation, Denver, Colorado
National Boulevard Bank, Wrigley Building, Chicago, Illinois
National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation, Herndon, Virginia
O'Connor, Schiff & Myers, Chicago, Illinois
Piper Jaffray Companies, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation, Indianapolis, Indiana
Sheldon Swope Museum of Art, Terre Haute, Indiana
St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, Minnesota
Standard Federal Bank, Burr Ridge, Illinois
State Department, U.S. Government, Washington, DC
United Methodist Home, Chicago, Illinois
University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana
VideoIndiana, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
Woodward Associates, Indianapolis, Indiana
Resumé
ARNE KVAALEN
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Studio Address:
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Mailing Address:
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108 N. Fifth Street
Lafayette, IN 47901
Phone: 765-420-7073
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1721 Fernleaf Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47906
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Education:
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Minneapolis Art Institute
Walker Art Museum Art School
B.A.: Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, 1947
M.F.A.: University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1965
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Professional Experience:
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Professor in Department of Creative Arts,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1965-93
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Awards and Commissions:
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| 2003 | Honorable Mention: “10th Annual Juried Art Exhibit,” Jasper Community Arts Commission, Jasper, IN |
| 2002 | Award of High Honor: “9th Annual Juried Art Exhibit,” Jasper Community Arts Commission, Jasper, IN |
| 2000 | Award of Merit: "56th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition," Sheldon Swope
Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN |
| 1999 | Commission: Acrylic landscape for Eridania Beghin-Say, Paris, France
Award of Merit: "55th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition," Sheldon Swope
Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN |
| 1996 | Award of Merit: "52th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition," Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN |
| 1995 | Best of Show Award: "Grand WAAbash" Exhibit, Wells Gallery, West Lafayette, IN |
| 1994 | Award of Merit: "50th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition," Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN |
| 1989 | Commission: Acrylic triptych for headquarters of Central Soya Corporation, Inc.,
Fort Wayne, IN |
| 1988 | Purchase Award: "44th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition," Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN |
One-man Shows:
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| 2001 | Ruschman Art Gallery, Indianapolis, IN |
1993 | Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1990 | Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Sales & Rental Gallery, IN |
1986 | Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
1980 | Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN |
1979-80 | Traveling exhibit, “The Eye and the Hand in High Places,”
shown in the following galleries in Montana:
Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls; Lewistown Art Center, Lewistown; Danforth Gallery, Livingston; Exit Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman; Custer County Art Center, Miles City; Copper Village Art Center, Anaconda; Western Gallery, Western Montana College, Dillon; J.K. Ralston Museum, Sidney
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1979 | Charles M. Russell Gallery, Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT |
1978 | Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
1973 | Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN |
1969 | Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
1964 | Davenport Art Gallery, Davenport, IA |
Arne Kvaalen, Selected Group Shows
| 2005 | Art & Design Faculty Exhibition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
62nd Annual Salon Show, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, IN
Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery Regional Juried Exhibition, Kokomo, IN |
| 2004 | Ruschman Gallery "Works on Paper," Indianapolis, IN |
| 2003 | Purdue University Galleries 25th Anniversary Show, West Lafayette, IN
Purdue University Galleries "Land, Site, Scene", West Lafayette, IN |
| 2001 | Ruschman Gallery Holiday Exhibition, Indianapolis, IN
Frankfort Public Library, Frankfort, IN
"57th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition," Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN |
| 2000 | Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
"True to Nature," White River Gardens Exhibition, Indianapolis, IN
Indiana Artists’ Club Exhibit, Frankfort Community Library, Frankfort, IN |
| 1999 | Jasper Community Arts Commission Show, Jasper, IN |
1985 to
1998 | annually, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1998 | Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
"54th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition," Sheldon Swope Art Museum,
Terre Haute, IN |
| 1997 | Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, IN
Cinergy Traveling Exhibition, various Indiana cities |
| 1996 | Cinergy Traveling Exhibition, Indiana, Kentucky, & Ohio |
| 1995 | "Indiana Now," Lafayette Art Museum, Lafayette, IN
Frankfort Public Library, Frankfort, IN
"51th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition," Sheldon Swope Art Museum,
Terre Haute, IN
Annually, 1966-1993, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
| 1993 | "Realism Today", 1993 Competition, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN |
| 1992 | "A View from Here: Heartland Landscape Painters," McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL |
| 1991 | "Predominantly Pastel," Wolf Kahn, Juror; Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC
"Pastels," Art Gallery Originals, Winston-Salem, NC |
| 1990 | "Realism Today," Eighth Annual Competition, Evansville Museum of Arts & Science, Evansville, IN
"Chicago International Art Exposition," Navy Pier, Chicago, IL (exhibited by Jan Cicero Gallery, annually since 1985) |
| 1989 | "45th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition," Sheldon Swope Art Museum,
Terre Haute, IN |
| 1988 | "The Time of the American Farm," Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
"Indiana Realism," Artlink Contemporary Artspace, Fort Wayne, IN |
| 1987 | "Realism Today," Fifth Annual Competition, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN |
1986
1988 | "Works on Paper," exhibited in Hamburg, Germany, then in other cities in Germany, then at Purdue University and Indiana University |
| 1983 | "39th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition," Sheldon Swope Art Museum,
Terre Haute, IN
The Lahr Gallery, Lafayette, IN (Two-man Show)
Grand Opening Exhibit, The Lahr Gallery, Lafayette, IN
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