The South Dakota Supreme Court will hear a case involving Hollywood
actor Kevin Costner and some bronze sculptures of bison and American
Indians.
Justices will review a judge's decision last summer that Costner did not
breach a contract with South Dakota artist Peggy Detmers by placing the
sculptures at his Tatanka attraction near Deadwood in 2006. Detmers
challenged the ruling, and oral arguments are set for March 19 in
Vermillion, the Rapid City Journal reported.
Costner filmed much of his Academy-Award-winning movie "Dances with
Wolves" in South Dakota. He commissioned the sculptures in the early
1990s for his planned Dunbar resort in South Dakota's Black Hills that
still has not been built.
Costner paid Detmers $300,000 for the 17 sculptures. Detmers said she
spent more than six years creating the artwork and gave Costner a price
break because she anticipated selling smaller sculptures at the resort.
Circuit Judge Randall Macy ruled last July that Detmers indicated her
approval of the Tatanka location by participating in the development of
the site, the placing of the sculptures there and the opening ceremony.
The Tatanka site houses the sculptures and a visitor center.
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