Hamster

Hamster

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Don LaViere Turner

Don LaViere Turner was a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and poet. He studied art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, receiving his BS in 1951, followed by an MS in 1953. In 1971, he returned to Wisconsin, continued his painting and printmaking practices, and taught at UW–Madison. “Hamster” is a detailed study of the rodent standing on its hind legs in a patch of grass, with one front limb outstretched.
Artist
Don LaViere Turner
(American, 1929 – 1997)
Title
Hamster
Date
1961
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
7 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. image
Credit
Gift of Sonja Chesley
Accession No.
2021.20.3
Classification
Prints
Geography
United States

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By 1997, gifted from the artist to Daniel O. Stolpe [student of the artist]; 2018, through inheritance from Daniel O. Stolpe (Gold Canyon, AZ) to Sonja Chesley (Salt Lake City, UT); 2021 gifted to the Chazen Museum of Art

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