Mary SullyEstados Unidos, 1896–1963George Ade
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Instituto de Artes de Mineápolis
Minneapolis, Estados Unidos
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- anteayer
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- 25 sept 2026
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Mary Sully's personality portraits were created in New York City, where the artist lived with her sister Ella Deloria, the first Native American woman ethnographer. Exposed to an art world of abstraction, modernism, and Art Nouveau, Sully drew upon these genres and infused Dakota aesthetics and values in conversation with them.
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In this work, Sully creates a personality portrait of George Ade to evoke his reputation of hospitality and generosity. Ade was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, and playwright, and built a grand estate, made accessible to communities and children. The top panel suggesting paths of his grand estate, and the middle panel transitions from the first in kaliedescope fashion in an Art Nouveau style. Fully quilled moccasins appear on the bottom panel, referencing Sully's visual gesture to Ade's generosity and respect, as quilled moccasins are given to others for these individual qualities.
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- 2023.56.4
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- Instituto de Artes de Mineápolis: the museum's own open data · obtenido hace 5 días
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