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1. Box, Tackle - Les Kouba's plastic tackle box

   Yellow/gold plastic Plano tackle box that belonged to Les C. Kouba and was used at the Arts & Crafts Festival in Hutchinson where he was a featured artist. His signature is on the cover. The tackle box was purchased at public auction from the estate of Deloris Saar, lifelong friend of Les Kouba, with the intention of donating it to the Les Kouba Gallery at the McLeod County Historical Museum. Contents: hammer, ruler, screw driver, mallet, plie...

   Record Type: Object

   
2. Calendar - Ron Schara's 1991 Minnesota Sportsman's Calendar

   Ron Schara's 1991 Minnesota Sportsman's Calendar. Features famous paintings by Les C. Kouba each month with a paragraph about the painting. Ron Schara has added sportsman's events, license deadlines, wildlife movements, bird migrations, fishing tips & hotspots, season opening dates, moon phases to each month. Caricatures of Les Kouba and Ron Schara are on the back. Prints: "Crosscountry Moose", "Old Three Legs", "Mallards On Ice", "Turkeys Ov...

   Record Type: Archive

   
3. Clipping, Newspaper - Les Kouba

   Scanned newspaper clipping photograph of Les Kouba with Minnesota wildlife prints: Chinese Ringneck pheasant, Hungarian partridge, ruffed grouse. From December 14, 1969 Minneapolis Star Tribune.

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. Clipping, Newspaper - Les Kouba

   Scanned newspaper clipping photograph of Les Kouba with biographical information. Unknown newspaper source & date.

   Record Type: Photo

   
5. Clipping, Newspaper - The Last Chance-Les C. Kouba

   Clipping from a 1958 newspaper supplement of the painting "The Last Chance" by Les C. Kouba with a description of deer hunting in Minnesota by gunners and archers.

   Record Type: Archive

   
6. Disc, Compact - Joyce Young Watercolor Artist

   CD: "Joyce Young, Water Color Artist, produced by McLeod County Heritage Center from a program on April 13, 2008.

   Record Type: Photo

   
7. Drawing - Basketball player drawing

   Large drawing of a mustached man with a basketball. He is wearing a black cap, black tennis shoes, and a green uniform. The drawing was part of a series of figures, possibly for a Lester Prairie prom, and was done on butcher paper . Drawn by Alton "Al" Hovern, who was Superintendent of Schools in Lester Prairie in 1952-1966. He then taught art at the Glencoe Middle School from 1966-1970. He was born November 15, 1915 and died December 19, 19...

   Record Type: Object

   
8. Drawing - Bluejay pastel by Nellie Pendergast

   Pastel drawing on note paper by Nellie Pendergast of the head of a bluejay wearing a tuxedo. Part of set of four "Bedtime Story Folks". Others are raccoon (1979-0621-001), fox (1979-0621-003) and rabbit (1979-0621-004).

   Record Type: Object

   
9. Drawing - Fox pastel by Nellie Pendergast

   Pastel drawing on note paper by Nellie Pendergast of the head of a fox. Part of set of four "Bedtime Story Folks". Others are raccoon (1979-0621-001), bluejay (1979-0621-002) and rabbit (1979-0621-004).

   Record Type: Object

   
10. Drawing - "Prairie Pioneers" drawing

    Large framed drawing called "Prairie Pioneers" showing a family with an oxen team and a covered wagon going across the prairie. Drawn for the McLeod County Historical Society in 1975 by H. S. Claybaugh of Hutchinson, MN. Signed H. Claybaugh, 1975 at lower right. Wood frame; glass. Howard S. Claybaugh was born July 22, 1894 in Uniontown PA. He was a self-taught engineer, inventor and teacher and worked as a division engineer for the Northwest...

    Record Type: Object

    
11. Drawing - Rabbit pastel by Nellie Pendergast

    Pastel drawing on note paper by Nellie Pendergast of the head of a rabbit wearing a tuxedo. Part of set of four "Bedtime Story Folks". Others are raccoon (1979-0621-001), bluejay (1979-0621-002) and fox (1979-0621-003).

    Record Type: Object

    
12. Drawing - Raccoon pastel by Nellie Pendergast

    Pastel drawing on note paper by Nellie Pendergast of the head of a raccoon. Part of set of four "Bedtime Story Folks". Others are bluejay (1979-0621-002), fox (1979-0621-003) rabbit (1979-0621-004).

    Record Type: Object

    
13. Mural - Kouba "Gold Rush" mural, 1936

    Mural painting done by Les C. Kouba in July, 1936 when he was 19 years old. The scene depicts the Gold Rush Days at sunset. From right to left covered wagons and men on horseback approach a man panning for gold at center. On the left is a man cooking at a campfire near a ring of covered wagons. Wood frame. The mural was described in the July 17, 1936 Hutchinson Leader: "Above is a reproduction of the right half of a splendid mural painted by ...

    Record Type: Object

    
14. Mural - Picking corn in the 1930s mural

    Large colorful mural of a farmer picking corn in the 1930s. Reproduced and painted by Dave Wegscheid from Les C. Kouba painting "Corn Pickin' in the 1930's". Images of a team of horses hitched to a bang board wagon with large wooden wheels in a field of ripened & unpicked ear corn. A farmer dressed in blue shirt, overalls and cap is tossing shucked/husked ears into the wagon. A farmstead witha hay/straw stack, barn, silo, house, shed, 2 corn c...

    Record Type: Object

    
15. Painting - George "Jake" Jacobson painting, 1955

    Large painting by George "Jake" Jacobson, signed and dated 1955. The lake scene with mountains in the background has a brick wall in the foreground near a stairway to the water. Painted on fiberboard.

    Record Type: Object

    
16. Painting - H. L. Merrill School

    Framed oil painting of the H. L. Merrill School building in Hutchinson, MN by Lowell Baysinger, husband of donor Marion Baysinger. Light colored wood frame. Artist's signature at lower right. Donor notes: "Before the school burned down in 1975 and probably in the 1960s Lowell Baysinger took his scratch pad and as he sat in his car south of the school he recorded all the details of the building. Then he went home and painted this picture as he ...

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17. Painting - Les Kouba painting c.1936

    Large original oil painting by Les C. Kouba painted c.1936 following his high school years. The scene is of two duck hunters in a boat with birds flying overhead and snow falling. A box of shells is between the hunters who wear camouflage jackets. The painting was commissioned by the Stocking Hardware Store in Hutchinson, MN to encourage hunters to buy shells and guns at Stockings' and locate the sporting goods section of the store. Oil paint...

    Record Type: Object

    
18. Painting - "Les Kouba Point"

    Painting by Carl Melichar of a pair of Canada geese on the ground at Les Kouba Point, Hutchinson, MN. A large boulder has a plaque designating the park area for Les C. Kouba. Three more geese fly overhead and the new School Road bridge is in the background. Canvas; wood frame; no glass. Les Kouba Point was dedicated in 1978. On May 3, 1984 Carl Melichar presented the painting to the McLeod County Heritage Center. Notations on the back of...

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19. Painting - Painting by Linda Kottke-Kottke home, Glencoe, MN

    Painting of the Louis & Arlene Dotsie Kottke house by Linda Kottke Brozyna, May 7, 1982, with a "Happy Mothers Day" greeting. The house is at 1326 16th St E, Glencoe, MN.

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20. Painting - "The Gladiators" - by Nellie B. Pendergast

    Oil painting titled "The Gladiators" by Nellie B. Pendergast. Two bull moose battle in a rocky forest opening observed by a female moose. Earthtones and pale blue on an Academy Board. Signed N. B. Pendergast in the lower right corner. Also titled and signed N. B. Pendergast, 4327 Luverne Street, Duluth MN on the back. Label attached to back of frame: The Minnesota State Art Society, Object No. 18. Ornate wooden frame painted gold.

    Record Type: Object