Photographer donates $60K in paintings to Park Rapids clinic – Park Rapids Enterprise

The Essentia Health Foundation and Essentia Health-Park Rapids Clinic welcomed paintings from a North Dakota photographer.

A small reception on Thursday, July 23 celebrated the “generous, in-kind donation” valued at $60,000, in keeping with a information launch.

Wayne Gudmundson photographed land by his Ponsford cabin, had them professionally framed and donated them to the clinic.

According to Gudmundson’s web site (

www.waynegudmundsonphotography.com

), his work “is in the permanent collection of many major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the Reykjavik Museum of Photography, the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal and the Plains Art Museum in Fargo.”

Gudmundson’s pictures have appeared in 9 books, a number of public tv documentaries and quite a few reveals over the previous 40 years, says his web site.

He teaches images at Minnesota State University Moorhead.

In whole, Gudmundson donated 26 items of artwork to the Park Rapids clinic.

The launch notes that the Essentia Health Foundation labored with the Park Rapids Clinic crew to have the area repainted and refreshed at Pleasant Avenue previous to the paintings being put in.

“The event highlighted the new artwork, recognized Wayne’s generosity and celebrated the positive impact this donation will have on the clinic environment for patients, staff and community members,” stated the discharge.

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