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BETTY LaDUKE•EXHIBIT PROPOSAL•

BARBIE 1966 Not My Mom (50 x 43)

PLAY FREE 1965 For All Children, Everywhere (23 x 19)

THE HOMECOMING 1968From Vietnam to Afghanistan (46 x 50)

CHICAGO: MAYOR DALY’S DOGS 1968 (58 x 48)Democratic Convention Vietnam War Protesters

WE DIDN’T KNOW 1967 From Dachau to Alabama (58 x 48)

LAST SUMMER’S POLITICIANS 1967 Yes We Can? (56 x 48)

HIROSHIMA 1968 Theme: Protesting Nuclear War

3 box structures, Masonite-wood (72 x 18 ea)

HOLOCAUST 1969 Triangular interactive wood box,

7 sections stacked on center pole (76 x 29)

LOVE TOTEMS: TIME MAGAZINE 1968 Martin Luther King, War, Riots, Politics, Flower Children10 boxes, Masonite-wood, optional stacking (24 x 18 ea)

LAS MARRANOS 1962Spanish Inquisition, etching (30 x 25)

TREE OF LIFE #21–MOTHER COURAGE 1986etching (32 x 24)

“THE PEOPLE IS A TRAGIC AND COMIC TWO-FACE: HERO AND HOODLUM” 1963

excerpt from Carl Sandburg’s “The People Yes” (30 x 24)

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CHILE: THE EXILED 1982 (46 x 38)

ERITREA: REFUGEES WAITING 2000 (45 x 33)

ERITREA: DREAMING HOME 2002 (55 x 49)

ERITREA: VILLAGERS FLEEING WAR 2004 (45 x 33)

GUATEMALA: MASKED VOLCANOES 1983 (68 x 54)

KOSOVO: WAR WIDOWS 2006 (55 x 49)

LATIN AMERICA: BETWEEN SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW 2004 (68 x 54)

MOZAMBIQUE: VANISHING RAIN FOREST 2009 (55 x 49)

BORDER CROSSINGS #2 2014 (48 x 28)

MIGRANT FARM WORKER 2016 (54 x 39)



BORDER CROSSINGS #4: FAMILIES HIDING 2015 (48 x 64) 4 assembled panels

MIGRANT DREAMS #1 2016 (56 x 19)

MIGRANT DREAMS #2 2016 (26 x 20)

MIGRANTS: DROWNED DREAMS 2016 (60 x 36)

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LOVE TOTEMS: TIME MAGAZINE 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., War, Riots, Politics, Flower Children

10 boxes, Masonite-wood, optional stacking (mostly 24 x 18 each)


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STANDING ROCKTOTEM #1

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STANDING ROCK TOTEM #2

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DREAMERS TOTEM #1

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DREAMERS TOTEM #3

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DREAMERS TOTEM #2

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SKETCHED ON LOCATION BY BET T Y L ADUKE 1972—2016: USA • AFRICA • ASIA • EASTERN EUROPE • L ATIN AMERICA • MIDDLE EAST



Art is meant to be enjoyed aesthetically, but it should also bring forth questions. I hope my art makes people more alert to what’s happening in the world. —Betty LaDuke

Dimensions Value

Play Free (1965) 25 x 21 350For All Children, Everywhere

I. Personal and PoliticalMedia: acrylic on Masonite

Barbie (1966) 50 x 43 3,500Not My Mom

We Didn’t Know (1967) 58 x 48 3,500From Dachau to Mississippi, Voter Rights

Last Summer’s Politicians (1967) 58 x 48 3,500Yes We Can?

The Homecoming (1967) 56 x 48 3,500From Vietnam to Afghanistan

Chicago Mayor Daly’s Dogs (1968) 58 x 48 3,500Democratic Convention, Vietnam War Protestors

II. RememberingMedia: Masonite, wood, three-dimensional box paintings

Love Totems: TIME Magazine (1968) 24 x 18 13,000Martin Luther King, Jr., War Riots, and Flower Children each box

The Holocaust (1969) 76 x 29 13,000World War II

Hiroshima (1968) 72 x 18 13,000Nevermore

ART LIST – PG 1




III. Truth, Satire, ResistanceMedia: etchings

Los Marranos (1962) 30 x 25 1,500Spanish Inquisition, 1478—1834, In Spain and all Spanish colonies and territories

The People (1963) 30 x 24 1,500“The People is a tragic and comic two-faced hero and hoodlum.” Excerpt from Carl Sandburg’s “The People yes” (1963)

Tree of Life: Mother Courage (1986) 46 x 38 4,000Homage to Mothers Surviving War, Poverty, and Oppression

IV. SurvivalMedia: acrylic paintings on canvas

Chile: The Exiled (1982) 46 x 38 4,000Remembering victims of the Pinochet dictatorship

Guatemala: Masked Volcanoes (1983) 68 x 54 6,000“During the summer of 1982, thousands of Indians and peasant farmers were killed by Guatemalan government troops in bloody antisubversive campaign in rural areas.” (Source: “Companieras Women, Art, and Social Change in Latin America.” Betty LaDuke. 1985, City Light Books)

Latin America: Between Sunlight and Shadow (2004) 68 x 54 6,000The richness of indigenous culture undermined by poverty

Mozambique: Vanishing Rain Forest (2009) 55 x 49 6,000Environmental destruction as valuable hardwood trees are exported, resulting in depleted soil

Eritrea: Refugees Waiting (2000) 45 x 33 4,000During the Border War, Eritreans were forced to leave Ethiopia, where many had established homes and businesses.

Eritrea:War Displaced Villagers Dreaming of Home (2002) 55 x 49 6,000Two years after the Border War with Ethiopia, Eritrean villagers remain in camps for the displaced until the land mines are cleared from their farms.

ART LIST – PG 2



Eritrea: Villagers Fleeing War (2000) 45 x 33 4,000The Border War between Eritrea and Ethiopia (1998—2000) won by Eritrea still remains a source of conflict.

Kosovo: War Widows (2006) 55 x 49 6,000 “March 26, 1999: in one day they separated men from women and killed 114 men and boys—one day after NATO came. Twenty were children. They just lined them up and in seconds sprayed them with machine gun fire.”(Source: Dreaming Cows: The Paintings, Murals, and Drawings of Betty LaDuke Celebrating Heifer International. By Susan Vo Bumagin. Heifer International, 2009. P. 123.)

IV. Border Crossings Near and FarMedia: cut, shaped, and routed wood panels

Migrant Farm Worker (2016) 54 X 39 4,500

Border Crossings #1 (2014) 52 x 36 6,000Border Crossings #2 (2014) 48 x 48 6,000Border Crossings #3 (2014) 42 x 30 6,000

Border Crossings (2015; four assembled panels) 48 x 64 7,000Families Hidings

Migrant Dreams #1 (2016) 51 x 19 2,500

Migrant Dreams #2 (2016) 26 x 20 2,500

Migrants: Drowned Dreams(2016) 60 x 36 6,000

V. ResistanceMedia: cut, shaped, routed wood panels

Standing Rock Totem #1 (2017) 62 x 30 6,000The totem form, a homage to the pipeline protestors, was inspired by a tall post at a Standing Rock encampment.

Standing Rock Totem #2 (2017) 57 x 23 6,000The pole was covered with signs identifying a multitude of places;The home bases of protesters who came from around the world to witness, be in solidarity, and to love water, not oil.

ART LIST – PG 3



Standing Rock Water Protectors (2017; triptych) 57 x 28 18,000It sparks hope in the world when 10,000 people from the US 72 x 30and abroad come together to protest the construction of the 59 x 26Dakota Access Pipeline. Water is life. The construction of a pipeline that would cross under a North Dakota river, the water source for millions, means oil spills and water contaminations become realities. In spite of police force that included fire hoses, chemical spraying, and the use of pellet guns, the water protectors remained resilient.

VI. At Home USAMedia: wood panels, cut and shaped

DACA Dreamers: At Home USA #1 (2017) 57 x 21 6,000(Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)Build Bridges Not Walls



The Dreamers’ ActDACA has offered protection against deportation to some 750,000 men and women who entered this nation as children and know no other home. They’ve gone to American schools, gotten American jobs, and pay American taxes; many have proven to be productive and valued members of this society. Each goes through an FBI background check and each has a clean criminal background. They must be in school, recently graduated, or have been honorably discharged from the military to apply for DACA. (Source: Human Rights Watch 2017)

VII. Sketches on Location

USA, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Eastern EuropeThirty drawings (reproduced, unframed) 11 x 17 150 each total

ART LIST – PG 4

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