Jane McMarty Mauldin (1936-1997) was a Choctaw artist who exhibited her work from 1963-1997. She won more than 100 awards for her work and was designated a Master Artist by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Mauldin’s works can be found in the permanent collections of the Heard Museum, the Heritage Center of the Red Cloud Indian School, and the collections of the United States Department of the Interior. Mauldin worked in various artistic styles, using acrylic, collage, ink, pencil, oil, and watercolor. Her early works tended toward photorealism, but later in her career her work followed more modern free-flowing trends. She exhibited at the First Annual Invitational Exhibition of American Indian Paintings hosted by the United States Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. Mauldin also participated in the National Indian Woman’s Art Show, which took place in Washington, D.C. in 1980. The following year, she participated in the Kennedy Arts Center’s Night of the First Americans exhibition. Mauldin described her process as follows: “I usually paint at night – a habit I developed over the years – when the house is quiet. I have no preconceived idea of where I’m going; using enhancement to bring forth the major structure of the painting.”