Oscar Howe. Dancer
Item #8140
17" x 9.5"; casein on paper; matted & framed, under plexiglass. [ca. 1960]. Oscar Howe (Mazuha Hokshina, engl. Trader Boy). Yanktonai Indian artist (1915-1983). Born at Joe Creek on the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota. Howe was a graduate of Dorothy Dunn's famous art program at the Santa Fe, New Mexico Indian School which encouraged students to develop a painting style based their respective cultural traditions. After service in WWII, received B. A. degree Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, SD; M. A. University of Oklahoma, 1954. Howe's early work shows the influence of the Santa Fe School, but at Oklahoma he began to develop the more personal, abstract style characterized by strong geometric line and sharply defined, often bright color fields, that broke new ground for Native American Painting, and solidified his reputation as a modern master. SOLD |
