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David Geister is an artist whose love of the natural beauty of the land and fascination with his country's history is celebrated in his work. He creates landscapes, portraits and depictions of historic events in a variety of mediums...oil on canvas, pen and ink drawings and watercolor sketches done in a nineteenth-century style. As a child growing up at the confluence of the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers in Prescott, Wisconsin, Dave became immersed in the works of Mark Twain and Bruce Catton, and when he wasn’t reading or reenacting battles with toy soldiers, he was drawing. As a young man, four years of service in the United States Marine Corps left him with a deep appreciation for the drama of American history and the desire to tell those stories. Dave has worked for a number of years as an illustrator, and his paintings have been featured in The Saturday Evening Post and several issues of The History Channel Magazine. His illustrations can be found in The Legend of Minnesota, The Legend of Wisconsin, The Voyageur's Paddle, and Riding to Washington, children's picture books published by Sleeping Bear Press. The Minnesota Historical Society has called upon Dave's skills as a historical artist and interpreter for many of its sites throughout the state. He can occasionally be glimpsed in costume as one of the early inhabitants of Minnesota’s Historic Fort Snelling, where he enjoys portraying the surgeon as well as the frontier artists Seth Eastman and George Catlin. Dave lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his dear wife, Pat Bauer, and his lovely stepdaughters, Eva and Allison, who share his love of history and art. |
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Riding to Washington Young Janie is a troublemaker, forced to go along with her father to the March on Washington in August 1963. She’s never spent much time before with blacks—who seem from the TV news reports to be troublemakers, too. Now, as one of the few whites on a bus headed to Washington, Janie sees her fellow travelers encountering discrimination. Ultimately she decides that some trouble is well worth making. |
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The Legend of Wisconsin Gitchee Manitou sends Nanabush the Great Hare to the new north country to give the first animals their names and special markings. Legend says a game between Nanabush and Ahmik the Giant Beaver etches out the islands, ponds, and lakes of Wisk-on-sin, which means “place of the beaver." |
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The Voyageur’s Paddle While Jacque's father, who is a voyageur — a fur trader in the Great Lakes region during the eighteenth century — is away from home, Jacque dreams of the day when he will be able to join the ranks of voyageurs. |
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The Legend of Minnesota This little-known, but age-old tale of an enduring friendship between an Ojibwe girl and a Dakotah boy chronicles how their kindness toward each other gives the beautiful land of Minnesota its name. |
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