FLOYD TENNISON DEWITT
BORN
1934, Wolf Point, MT
EDUCATION
Minneapolis School of Art
National Academy for the Fine Arts, Amsterdam, Netherlands
AWARDS & HONORS
Gold Medal, Silver Medal, Bronze Medal, National Sculpture Society,
Annual Juried Exhibition
Silver Medal National Academy of Western Art
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Numerous Private Collections in the U.S. and Europe
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Guide to Public Sculpture in the Netherlands
2001 Wildlife Art Magazine
REPRESENTED BY
Legends Fine Art, Livingston, MT
Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
Celebration of the Seasons
Floyd Tennison DeWitt
13" x 11" x 5" Bronze
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
What interested me about belly dancing was how, from the beginning of time, man has expressed himself through the medium of dance and music. Nowhere on Earth exist civilizations void of this practice. If there is any one single thread that joins us it is to play and dance to music, to involve ourselves in the diverse but common activities of rhythm."
"My dancer was inspired by a young woman who had actually studied the art of belly dancing in Egypt as a young girl. She both danced and posed for me for approximately three years, teaching me about belly dancing and its subtleties and origins. According to her, belly dancing is the oldest form of dance known to man. No one knows exactly where it began but it appears to be based on regional and tribal forms of ritual expression, such as the celebration of births, deaths, the harvest and of course weddings.
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