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Allotment Series I
Ruthe Blalock Jones is a celebrated female Native American artist. She won her first art award at the age of 15 at the Philbrook Art Museum's annual show in 1954. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame in 1995, and was named the Red Earth Festival's Honored One in in 2011. Her work can be found in the public collections of many museums, as well as the United States Department of the Interior. Allotment Series I has an interesting history. Ruthe Blalock Jones initially gave the piece to Native American art expert Jeanne Snodgrass King....
Selling Turquoise
Robert Hashke-Yil-Cale Chee (1937-1971) practiced the traditional flat style painting of the American Southwest. Most of his paintings are of traditional Southwest and Navajo scenes and rituals. Chee was born on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and received some of his art training from the well known Apache artist Allan Hauser, when Hauser taught at the Intermountain Indian School in Utah. Chee served in the U.S. Army, where one of his jobs was to paint murals on the interior of Army buildings....
Thorpe Headdress
Jim Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal in the Olympics for the United States. He won two gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics and also played professional football, professional baseball, and professional basketball. Thorpe Headdress is based upon a 1942 black and white promotional photograph of Thorpe. Nicole Hatfield Curtis lives in Oklahoma. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Comanche National Museum in Lawton, Oklahoma....
Circles of Power
Nocona Burgess is the great, great grandson of Chief Quanah Parker, the last war chief of the Comanche. Nocona grew up in Oklahoma and now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institute Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, and the Bristol Museum in Bristol, England....
Watchers
Don't forget about the Watchers. Karma Henry lives in California. Paiute lore and family stories form the basis of her work. She also integrates petroglyphs, topographic maps, historical photographs and documents, as well as animal imagery and traditional Native beading, into her work. Her paintings convey a contemporary Native worldview. Karma is active in her tribe, having served as Vice Chairman for her tribe on the Fort Independence Indian Reservation....
Return II (Sisterhood)
Peaceful but poweful Sisterhood. Karma Henry lives in California. Paiute lore and family stories form the basis of her work. She also integrates petroglyphs, topographic maps, historical photographs and documents, as well as animal imagery and traditional Native beading, into her work. Her paintings convey a contemporary Native worldview. Karma is active in her tribe, having served as Vice Chairman for her tribe on the Fort Independence Indian Reservation....
Drift
Enjoy the pleasure and freedom of drifting. Karma Henry lives in California. Paiute lore and family stories form the basis of her work. She also integrates petroglyphs, topographic maps, historical photographs and documents, as well as animal imagery and traditional Native beading, into her work. Her paintings convey a contemporary Native worldview. Karma is active in her tribe, having served as Vice Chairman for her tribe on the Fort Independence Indian Reservation....
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