Harvey Dunn, N.A., was born on March 8, 1884, in a homestead shanty 3 miles south and 1/2 mile east, to Thomas and Bersha Dunn, and was one of three children. After attending a rural school, he entered State College in Brookings in 1901 to study art under Ada B. Caldwell, of whom he wrote, "She took a loving, intelligent interest in what I was vaguely searching for…with my eyes on the horizon she taught me where to put my feet." He attended the Art Institute in Chicago from 1902 to 1904, then studied for two years under the illustrator Howard Pyle, and opened his own studio at Leonia, N.J., in 1906. He married Johanna Krebs in 1908. His success as an illustrator was immediate, and he was also dedicated to teaching; a fellow artist said, "The most valuable thing Dunn taught us was honest dealing with our fellow man and a constant gratitude to the Maker above for the privilege of seeing the sun cast shadows." As an official A.E.F. artist in World War I, he painted many war scenes. He was elected to the National Academy of Design among other honors. A painter of Westerns, marines, and portraits, he gave the people of South Dakota in 1950 a collection to hang at State College that included pioneering subjects, saying, "my search for other horizons led me around to my first." He died on October 29, 1952.