Ed Little (American, B. 1957) "South Dakota Scenes" Signed lower right. Original Oil painting on Illustration Board.

Provenance: Collection of James A. Helzer (1946-2008), Founder of Unicover Corporation.

This painting is the original which was published on the Fleetwood First Day Cover for the U.S. 25c South Dakota Statehood stamp issued May 23, 1989.

South Dakota sits halfway between the nation's coasts, and halfway between the North Pole and the equator. However, the state is located to the north of America's main travel arteries, and South Dakota is regarded by the many people who don't know it as a mysterious, rugged, frontier state unchanged from the romantic and sometimes bloody ways of days past. A youthful state, South Dakota lacks the long history of the eastern states, the four-hundred-year-old Spanish traditions of the southwestern states, and the well-established Native American culture of other parts of the country -- even South Dakota's Sioux tribes are relative newcomers to the Northern Plains. The first Sioux and the French explorers arrived in the area during the eighteenth century. The nineteenth century brought the Lewis and Clark expedition, fur trade, the gold rush to the Black Hills, Indian uprisings, and the birth of the cattle industry. It also brought heavier settlement around the turn of the century, primarily by German and Scandinavian immigrants, the official end of Indian resistance, and statehood. South Dakota was admitted to the Union as the fortieth state on November 2, 1889, and since then has seen continued population growth, agricultural development, and an expansion of education, culture and the arts. These changes have ushered the South Dakota of the old West into modern times and made it a contemporary western state -- and an integral part of one of the most powerful nations in the world.

Image Size: 17.25 x 15 in.
Overall Size: 20 x 17 in.
Unframed.
(B11980)

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