Explore artworks by the Kiowa Six and other important Native American artists

Paintings

1976 - 2000

abstraction

antlers

barefoot

birds

black

blue

brown

cages

chaos

crescent moons

crescents

deer

detached

disorder

ears

earth

eyes

faces (human components)

Feathers

feet

floating

frames

grass

gray (color)

green (color)

grey

ground

hands

Indigenous paintings included in the Henry Luce Foundation 2020-2022 project

Items included in the Henry Luce Foundation 2020-2022 project

leaves

mocassins

moccasins

moon

Native American

nudes

orange

Osage

Pawnee

purple

roots

skull

Squares

stars

suspended

teeth

trees

trunks

white (color)

wings

yellow

Oil Painting

Norman Akers

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Collision of Heavenly Structures

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Akers, Norman

About the Creator

Art Item Information

<p>Thomas Gilcrease sought to tell the story of America, with an emphasis on Native American cultures and the history of the West, through art. The museum founder&rsquo;s fundamental interest in Native America was due in part to his own Creek Indian ancestry. Evidence of his interest is dramatically illustrated by the vast amount of Native American art and artifacts he gathered. Collectors of Native American art objects often place a premium on them in accordance with their relative age. Gilcrease knew the value of that practice, yet he also knew the importance of collecting contemporary Native American art. He was patron to a number of Native American artists of his time and purchased over 500 paintings by 20th-century Native American artists alone. As a result, the museum not only tells the story of Native America through exhibition of objects thousands of years old, but also through modern paintings and sculptures.</p>

Gilcrease's Native American Collection

baking

balconies

beams

bearers

boots

bracelets

breechcloths

children

churches

clowns

crosses

dancers

Dancing

daytime

Descending

doorways

dresses

drums (membranophones)

girls

headdresses

hills

Hopi Indians

indoors

inside

jewellery

jewelry

kachinas

Kneeling

ladders

looking down

mountains

necklaces

observers

observing

Outdoors

outside

ovens

processions

pueblos (housing complexes)

regalia

shadows

shawls

singers

Sitting

stairs

standing

village

walking

white

windows

women

wood

Fred Kabotie

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Pueblo Green Corn Dance

Kabotie, Fred

Marks and Inscriptions

Prints

Animals

Buffalo

dots

dotted

hair

horns

line

nose

profiles (figures)

signatures (names)

spots

spotted

wavy lines

Screenprint

John Nieto

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Buffalo at Sunset

Nieto, John

Landscape; single-sided
0.582-0.592mm
White, wove paper. Deckled edges. Even distribution of fibers in transmitted light.

Books, Articles and Exhibition Catalogues

1876 - 1900

aggression

aggressive

aiming

allies

American soldiers

angry

archery

armbands

arrows

battle

bird (animal)

bleeding

blood

body paint

bows (weapons)

breastplate (body armor)

capes

cavalry

crescent moon

Crow

dead

death

Eagle Feather

eagle feather bonnets

eagle feather warbonnets

enemies

face paint

flags

footwear

galloping

geometric patterns

guns

halo warbonnets

hats

history

horses (species)

jackets

leggings

loincloths

muslin

North America

pants

pistols

plains

quivers

records

saddles

shield

shirts

shoes

Shooting

soldiers

spears

stabbing

standards (identifying artifacts)

tipis

travois

trousers

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White Swan muslin cutting

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