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Name

Dolores Purdy Corcoran

Alternate name:

Dolores Purdy

Heritage

Caddo

Gender

female

Dates

Lifespan

1952-

Date Note

birth date August 14, 1952

Birthplace

Hampton

Virginia

Specialty / Medium

painting

mixed media painting

watercolor painting

ledger art

ledger painting

ledger drawing

colored pencil drawing

woman as a theme in art

mask

miniature

External Remarks

Artist's file in Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum.

Artist represented in the Native American Artists Collection (RC62) of the Heard Museum Archives.

Artist’s physical folder is filed alphabetically in the Native American Artists Resource Collection under the following name:

Corcoran, Dolores Purdy

Exhibits

Seeds of Being: a Project of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Art & Museum Studies Seminar. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. Norman, Oklahoma. June 12, 2018 - December 30, 2018. Note: features 35 artworks from the James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection and the Rennard Strickland Collection of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art; exhibiting artists include Linda Lomahaftewa, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, T.C. Cannon, Fritz Scholder, Bob Haozous, Jeffrey Gibson, Tony Abeyta, Cannupa Hanska Luger, and Amanda Lucario among others. Accompanied by a catalog.
Dolores Purdy. Morning Star Gallery. Santa Fe, New Mexico. Opened Friday August 19, 2016.
Vivid. Morning Star Gallery. Santa Fe, New Mexico. August 22-24, 2014.
Love of Ledger Art: History in Pictures. Tribes 131 Fine Arts. Norman, Oklahoma. February 10, 2012 - March 12, 2012.
Mulvane Mountain/Plains Art Fair. Washburn University. Topeka, Kansas. June 4-5, 1999.

Heard Markets

2021 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. March 6-7, 2021. Note: Virtual Market due to COVID.
2020 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. March 7-8, 2020.
2019 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. March 2-3, 2019.
2018 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. March 3-4, 2018.
2017 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. March 4-5, 2017.
2016 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. March 5-6, 2016.
2014 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. March 1-2, 2014.
2013 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. March 2-3, 2013.
2012 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. March 2012.
2011 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. March 2011.
2010 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market. Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. March 2010.

Fairs and Markets

2019 Santa Fe Indian Market. Southwestern Association for Indian Arts. Santa Fe, New Mexico. August 17-18, 2019.
2011 Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market. Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art. Indianapolis, Indiana. June 25-26, 2011.
2010 Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market. Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art. Indianapolis, Indiana. June 26-27, 2010.
2004 Santa Fe Indian Market. Southwestern Association on Indian Arts. Santa Fe, New Mexico. August 2004.
1999 Lawrence Indian Arts Show. University of Kansas Museum of Anthropoloy. Lawrence, Kansas. September 1999 - October 1999.
1994 Lawrence Indian Arts Show. University of Kansas Museum of Anthropoloy. Lawrence, Kansas. September 1994 - October 1994.
1993 Lawrence Indian Arts Show. University of Kansas Museum of Anthropoloy. Lawrence, Kansas. September 1993 - October 1993.

Awards

2019 Santa Fe Indian Market, Classification III - Paintings, Drawings, Graphics & Photography, Division A - Representational Painting/Graphics (Realistic/Stylized), including Miniatures, Category 1106 - Ledger art, any medium: Honorable Mention. Southwestern Association for Indian Arts. Santa Fe, New Mexico. August 16, 2019.
2018 Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market, Classification III - Paintings, Drawings, Graphics, Photography, Division C - Drawings (pen, pencil, charcoal, crayons, markets): First Place. Awarded for artwork: "This Girl is Rockin". Heard Museum. Phoenix, Arizona. March 2, 2018.
2011 Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market, Division 1 - Painting, Drawings, Photography & Prints, Category 103 - Drawings: First Place. Awarded for artwork: "Ghost Dancer". Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art. Indianapolis, Indiana. June 24, 2011.
2010 Eiteljorg Museum Indian Market, Division 1 - Painting, Drawings, Photography & Prints, Category 103 - Drawings: Second Place. Awarded for artwork: "War Ponies". Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art. Indianapolis, Indiana. June 26-27, 2010.
2004 Santa Fe Indian Market, Classification III - Paintings, Drawings, Graphics, Photography, Division C - Paintings, Abstract, Non-objective, Category 2007 - Miniatures: Third Place. Southwestern Association on Indian Arts. Santa Fe, New Mexico. August 2004.
1999 Mulvane Mountain/Plains Art Fair, Masks - Best 3-Dimensional Award. Washburn University. Topeka, Kansas. June 4, 1999.
Lawrence Indian Arts Show: Honorable Mention. Univerity of Kansas Museum of Anthropology. Lawrence, Kansas. September 1994 - October 1994.

Publications

Found 6 record(s)

Citation	Pages	Publication Date	Artist Citation Notes
. "Guide to Market, Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market". Native American Art, issue 19 (February/March 2019). 2019.	126-127	2019	Sections includes the following: Jewelry & Lapidary; Pottery; Paintings, Drawings, Photography & Graphics; Pueblo Carvings; Scupture; Weavings & Textiles; Diverse Arts including Beadwork & Quillwork; Baskets; Personal Attire; and Youth.
Ahtone, Heather (editor) and Todd Stewart (photographer). Seeds of Being: a Project of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Art & Museum Studies Seminar. Norman, Oklahoma: Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. 2018.	32-33	2018	Includes color reproduction of Dolores Purdy's 2014 ledger art "I Will Sing" with commentary by Robert Mac Eustace Jones. \| Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Seeds of Being: a Project of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Art & Museum Studies Seminar" at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma, June 8, 2018-December 30, 2018. Seminar instructors: heather ahtone and W. Jackson Rushing III; commentary on featured artworks by Seminar students enrolled in the University of Oklahoma School of Visual Arts.
Blankenship, Bill. "Topekan Unmasks Talent in Art". Topeka Capital-Journal, Sunday, May 30, 1999. 1999.	E1	1999	Newspaper article.
Dini, Jane (editor). Dance: American Art, 1830-1960. Detroit, Michigan: Detroit Institute of Arts. 2016.	64, 79-81	2016	Catalog was published in conjunction with the exhibition The Art of American Dance, Detroit Institute of Arts, March 20, 2016 - June 12, 2016; Denver Art Museum, July 10, 2016 - October 22, 2016; and Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, October 22, 201 - January 16, 2017. Native American artists cited in index include Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal), Walter Bone Shirt, Dolores Purdy Corcoran, Harry Fonseca, Oscar Howe, Oqwa Pi (Abel Sanchez), Quah Ah (Tonita Peña), and Maria Tallchief.
Nixon, Lance. "New Accounts on Old Paper: Modern Ledger Artists Explore Tribal Life by Resurrecting a 19th Century Art Form". Cowboys & Indians, vol. 25, no. 6 (August/September 2017). 2017.	82-86, 88-90	2017	Artists, with examples of their work, include Terrance Guardipee, Donald Montileaux, Dolores Purdy, and Dwayne "Chuck" Wilcox.
Sodders, Lisa M. "Putting the 'Water' in Watercolor". Topeka Capital-Journal, September 17, 1995. 1995.	1-c	1995	Newspaper article.

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