Feather Tree

November 2020, sold by Nancy Lowe [artist’s wife] (Madison, WI) to the Chazen Museum of Art

• Ortel, Jo. "Woodland Reflections: The Art of Truman Lowe." Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. pp. 63-65
• University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. Fine Arts Gallery. "Truman Lowe: Streams." University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. p. 11
• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Art Faculty Exhibition." Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990. n.p. [not illus.]
• Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. "Haga (Third Son): An Exhibition of Sculpture, Drawing, and Painting by Winnebago Artist Truman Lowe." Indianapolis, IN: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, 1994. pp. 10-11, 53
• Cassidy, Victor M. "Truman Lowe, Winnebago Artist." Artnet Magazine (1997). http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/features/cassidy/cassidy97-12-17.asp n.p. [illus]

• Haga (Third Son): An Exhibition of Sculpture, Drawing, and Painting by Winnebago Artist Truman Lowe: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, 4/30/1994–7/4/1994
• University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Art Faculty Exhibition: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 12/8/1990–1/20/1991

This sculpture, assembled from natural materials, takes the form of a tall, leafless “tree” rising from a rectangular wooden platform. The "tree" features a slender trunk branching into a network of thin, bare “limbs,” connected by thin strips of rawhide wrapped around the joints. Small wooden elements, carved to suggest feathers and leaves, dangle sparsely from the branches. Encircling the base of the trunk is a ring of fourteen smooth, rounded stones in shades of grey and black. These stones rest on a square, light brown wooden base, which itself sits atop the larger rectangular wooden platform with clearly visible woodgrain. The wooden platform is divided into four equal quadrants, delineated by rows of thin, peeled sticks embedded upright in straight lines. The sculpture’s minimalist arrangement and unaltered natural hues highlight the organic textures of its components.

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