Woody Crumbo (Potawatomie) was born in Lexington, Oklahoma around 1912. He attended government boarding schools in Kansas and studied under Oscar Jacobson at the University of Oklahoma. When he was 21, he was appointed as the Director of the Indian Art Program at Bacone College, one of the first Indigenous-art focused programs in the world. Crumbo aimed to introduce the world to the diversity of Indigenous art: “I have always painted with the desire of developing Indian art so that it may be judged on art standards rather on its value as a curio — I am attempting to record Indian customs and legends now, while they are alive, to make them a part of the great American culture before these, too, become lost, only to be fragmentarily pieced together by fact and supposition.” His work is found in numerious collections including The Philbrook Museum of Art, The Gilcrease, the Naitonal Museum of the American Indian, and his WPA murals are found in government buildings in Oklahoma and DC.