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Title: Mary Peterson Zundo Original Sousa Artwork

ID: 12/9/120

Creator: Zundo, Mary Peterson

Extent: 1.0

Arrangement: Arranged in one series. This collection is arranged in alphabetical order within each box.

Date Acquired: 00/00/2002

Languages: English [eng]

Consists of nine water paint/pencil/marker/pen portraits inspired by the music and life of John Philip Sousa, documenting the art of Mary Peterson Zundo.

Mary Peterson Zundo received her MA, MFA (1995) in printmaking from the University of Illinois. Between 2006 and 2007 she was a research fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago, between 2007 and 2008 she was the Jay and Deborah Last Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, and between 2008 and 2009 she was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. She finished course work towards her PhD in art history, working on a dissertation entitled "Mapping Destiny: Cartography and Nineteenth-Century American Art of the Frontier," but did not finish her degree. In 2017, she contributed a chapter entitled "New Geographies and Surveying Eyes: the Landscapes of Noh-Nah-Wih (Chief Killer)" to the book Ledger Narratives: The Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College. In 2020, she received a US Capitol Historical Society Fellowship for her project "Scaling the Divide: Emanuel Leutze’s Staircase Mural and the Labor of Mountain Vision." Zundo currently works as an independent scholar and lecturer at UC Santa Cruz.

Acquisition Source: Mary Zundo

Acquisition Method: Gift without an official Deed of Gift.