Oscar Howe Archives and Oscar Howe Gallery need your help

We are in the process of updating the Oscar Howe Database maintained at the University of South Dakota. USD is also the proud home of the Oscar Howe Archives and Oscar Howe Gallery. This work is being conducted in partnership with Inge Dawn Howe Maresh and her family. Inge is the only child of Oscar and Heidi Howe. While Heidi kept detailed written records of Oscar’s artworks, they didn’t keep a photographic record. We are working to provide Inge and her family with images and information on artworks by Oscar that she has never seen.

We need your help! Would you please supply the following for all Oscar Howe works in your collection
and any works you have deaccessioned?

• Image of the Artwork (cellphone photos are acceptable)
• Title
• Date
• Medium
• Dimensions
• Provenance
• Condition

We appreciate your support! Once we have established the current locations of Howe’s works, we plan to
create an Oscar Howe Catalogue Raisonné, the first for a Native American artist.
Please let us know if you have any questions, and thanks for your help!
Sincerely,

Carol Cook Geu
Carol.Geu@usd.edu