Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the Art of Place: How Two Midwestern Women Used Art to Negotiate Migration and Dispossession
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Angel De Cora (c. 1870–1919) was a Native Ho-Chunk artist who received relative acclaim during her lifetime. Karen Thronson (1850–1929) was a Norwegian settler housewife who created crafts and folk art in obscurity along with the other women of her small immigrant community. The immigration of Thronson and her family literally maps over the De Cora family’s forced migration across Wisconsin, Iowa, and onto the plains of Nebraska and Kansas. Tracing the parallel lives of these two women artists at the turn of the twentieth century, art historian Elizabeth Sutton reveals how their stories intersected and diverged in the American Midwest. By examining the creations of these two artists, Sutton shows how each woman produced art or handicrafts that linked her new home to her homeland. Both women had to navigate and negotiate between asserting their authentic self and the expectations placed on them by others in their new locations. The result is a fascinating story of two women that speaks to universal themes of Native displacement, settler conquest, and the connection between art and place. -- Provided by the publisher
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Henook-Makhewe-Kelenaka. Thronson, Karen, -- 1850-1929. Winnebago women -- Biography.
Document Type
Book
ISBN
9781609386870
Publication Date
2020
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
City
Iowa City, IA
Department
Department of Art
Object Description
192 pages
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Sutton, Elizabeth, "Angel De Cora, Karen Thronson, and the Art of Place: How Two Midwestern Women Used Art to Negotiate Migration and Dispossession" (2020). Faculty Book Gallery. 500.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/500
