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John Mix Stanley (January 17, 1814 – April 10, 1872) was an artist-explorer, an American painter of landscapes, and Native American portraits and tribal life. Born in the Finger Lakes region of New York, he started painting signs and portraits as a young man. In 1842 he traveled to the American West to paint Native
His son Chris, who was a budding artist, was killed in 1990. Jerome's other daughter, Lisa Tiger, is a prominent AIDS educator and activist as well as a motivational speaker. [6] In addition to his immediate family, many of Tiger's relatives were also artists, including Edmond Joshua, Jr. (1936–2005) [7] and his brother Lee Roy Joshua (died
Robert Taylor was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1951 [1] and lived there his entire life, other than his time in the Navy starting in 1970. Although Taylor has sometimes been described as having Blackfoot, Cherokee, Osage, and Black Dutch ancestry; [1] he is described by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian as being "non-indian".
Roger Cooke (January 24, 1941 – March 27, 2012) was an American artist and muralist. His work is best known for its historical depictions of local Native American tribes. He has painted over 60 murals across the country, particularly in small towns along the Oregon Trail, although few still remain. [1]
Elbridge Ayer Burbank (August 10, 1858 – April 21, 1949) was an American artist who sketched and painted more than 1200 portraits of Native Americans from 125 tribes. He studied art in Chicago and in his 30s traveled to Munich, Germany , for additional studies with notable German artists.
These works are significant as they are the most informative illustrations of a Native American society of the Eastern Seaboard, and predate the first body of "discovery voyage art" created in the late 18th century by the artists who sailed with Captain James Cook. They represent the sole-surviving visual record of the native inhabitants of ...
Jul. 9—For Jacob Johns, painting a portrait of the man accused of trying to kill him was a sort of exercise in healing. The Spokane, Wash.-based artist and activist on Tuesday afternoon stood ...
Karl Ferdinand Wimar (also known as Charles Wimar and Carl Wimar; 20 February 1828 – 28 November 1862), was a German-American painter who concentrated on Native Americans in the West and the great herds of buffalo. Abduction of Boone's Daughter, 1855–56, detail, Amon Carter Museum of American Art