Harvey Dunn
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Harvey Thomas Dunn NA, also known as J. Harvey Dunn, was an American painter and teacher. During World War I, Dunn was an artist-correspondent with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe. Most of Dunn's war sketches are housed at the Smithsonian Institution in the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. He is best known for his prairie-intimate masterpiece, The Prairie is My Garden (1950). In this painting, a mother and her two children are out gathering flowers from the quintessential prairie of the Great Plains.
Illustration for a serialized novel in the June 1922 Harper's Magazine.
Photograph of the drawing Sunday Morning at Cunel, 1918, National Archives at College Park, Maryland
The Prairie is My Garden 1950, South Dakota State University
De Smet, South Dakota
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De Smet is a city in and the county seat of Kingsbury County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,056 at the 2020 census.
Downtown De Smet, September 2010
Currently a Christian and Missionary Alliance church, the building was originally the First Congregational Church of De Smet; one of the church's builders was Charles Ingalls.
"The House That Pa Built", located at 210 3rd Street SW in De Smet
Former site of Ingalls Store, downtown De Smet