#Kiowa artists

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Decorative Sunday

The Nice, France-based decorative arts publisher C. Szwedzicki produced six titles on Native American Art. We’ve already presented their 2-volume portfolio Pueblo Indian Pottery, published from 1933-1936. This week we present some plates from the first of the six titles, Kiowa Indian Art, with images from the collection of Swedish-born American painter and Native American art curator Oscar Brousse Jacobson, published in 1929 in an edition of 750 copies signed by the publisher. The portfolio includes 30 color plates reproducing the paintings of the so-called Kiowa Six: Spencer Asah, James Auchiah, Jack Hokeah, Stephen Mopope, Monroe Tsatoke and Lois Smoky. The images shown here are by Asah, Hokeah, Mopope, and Smoky. Click on the images to see the attributions.

Oscar Jacobson was director of the University of Oklahoma's art department and established a special program at the school in 1926 for these promising Kiowa artists. They were provided with studio space, painting instruction, and choice exhibition venues, including the 1928 First International Art Exposition in Prague where they received international acclaim. This portfolio was produced soon after. The work of the Kiowa Six are considered significant in the development of Native American painting by bridging the era of Ledger Art to flat-style Southern Plains painting. Of the six, the work of Lois Smoky is the rarest and the most collectable as she left the program in 1927 and did not continue painting, although she later became noted as an accomplished beadworker. 

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artist T.C. Cannon in his studio (1976)

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New comm ordered by oomf of the day!!!

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Silver Horn drawings, 1897-1921

Silver Horn drawings, 1897-1921

“Silver Horn (1860-1940), a Kiowa artist from the early reservation period, may well have been the most prolific Plains Indian artist of all time. Known also as Haungooah, his Kiowa name, Silver Horn was a man of remarkable skill and talent. Working in graphite, colored pencil, crayon, pen and ink, and watercolor on hide, muslin, and paper, he produced more than one thousand illustrations between 1870 and 1920. Silver Horn created an unparalleled visual record of Kiowa culture, from traditional images of warfare and coup counting to sensitive depictions of the sun dance, early Peyote religion, and domestic daily life. At the turn of the century, he helped translate nearly the entire corpus of Kiowa shield designs into miniaturized forms on buckskin models for Smithsonian ethnologist James Mooney.”

-- Silver Horn: Master Illustrator of the Kiowas by Candace S. Greene

The artist Elbridge Ayer Burbank traveled to Indian reservations in the late nineteenth century to paint the portraits of Indigenous peoples. Burbank traveled to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, on three occasions; it was there that the Kiowa artist Silver Horn sat for him for at least two portraits.

Silver Horn had been an established artist among the Kiowa since the 1880s. In 1899, he became interested in Burbank’s “naturalist” technique, and he observed the American artist as he painted other subjects. With Burbank, Silver Horn studied the art of modeling faces and individual portraiture. He experimented with this style in a series of individual portraits of people and animals, most of which he sold to Edward E. Ayer, before abandoning the style in favor of work that was more stylistically Kiowa.

Silver Horn drawings, 1897-1921

The 123 pieces by Silver Horn in the Newberry’s Ayer Collection demonstrate that his experimentation took him away from narratives about community to work that featured individuals. This makes the body of work held in the collection stylistically distinct from both the earlier and later periods of Silver Horn's work.

–former Ayer Reference Librarian Seonaid Valiant (abridged from original post)

View Silver Horn's drawings or all of the Edward E. Ayer Collection at Newberry Digital Collections

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1. Cow Traffic Sign, from the Kansas Documentary Survey Project                                                                                        Artist          Larry W. Schwarm                                        Date                          1974

2.        Larry W. Schwarm, Cow, Kiowa County, from the Kansas Documentary Survey Project, 1974, gelatin silver print, image: 6 × 6 in. (15.2 × 15.2 cm) , Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.1225, © 1975, Larry W. Schwarm                      

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*          𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐘𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐒     𝐀𝐒𝐊𝐄𝐃          :          mw fcs & personality types maybe ? this looks so good !

first of all : love you sweat ! i will point you towards 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 meaty mw fc list, bc many good points were made. but ! i'll also take this moment to self advocate and some will b repeats ... i would go absolutely feral for ella purnell ( duh ), laura harrier, jessica chastain, avan jogia, ben barnes, zion moreno, cillian murphy, blanca padilla, oscar isaac, margot robbie, tom hardy, alexa demie, riz ahmed, samara weaving, zendaya, tom holland, mimi keene, logan lerman, adelaide kane, victoria pedretti, andrew garfield, penelope cruz, emma mackey, charles melton, bill skarsgard, adam dimarco, medalion rahimi, natasha liu bordizzo, dua lipa, archie renaux, robert pattinson, freida pinto, florence pugh, dev patel, jessica alexander, oliver jackson cohen, halston sage, kiowa gordon, lily james, madelaine petsch, jordan connor, hande ercel, phoebe tonkin, nick robinson, savannah lee smith, emily alyn lynd, henry golding, rachel zegler, josh heuston, paul mescal ( i actually can't talk about it... ), daisy edgar jones, rami malek, lily rose depp, aron piper, adria arjona, olivia cooke, and that's just off the dome... now as for personality or character types ? why don't you go ahead & read more for some that have come to me ;)

any and all of the bunnies of mona awad's bunny - pretentious and beautiful budding literary icons , diehard devotees of "the aesthetic" ( or part of a cult most likely )

local carmy ? brilliant , celebrated , seemingly stuck in devo due to some unfortunate emotional ( or physical ) ties - maybe managing the diner or cheffin' it up at the whaler

ex - sea captain who is now devoted to hunting for treasure - both geocache and pirate style . some townspeople think they've lost the plot but others have noticed they really have a knack for this . obviously , quite the casanova

a well liked ghost therapist . came to town years ago as a ' spiritualist ' / more of a lowkey con artist medium but really came into their own in this environment

the seraphic matchmaker , wholesome , in love w love , just wants everyone to be happy , strikes gold every time to the point it is giving witchcraft , world's best and most in demand bridesmaid as a result !

charming and charismatic town official , great at drawing in a crowd and overseeing all the best local events . old money ( as much as you can be in this town , bc their family has always been here ) so obviously corrupt w very questionable morals

THE barber who does put everything you say in their chair on blast via their town meme page / finsta but customers stay loyal bc the only competition has a much darker reputation ( plot twist : and they were roommates ! )

ofc , new in towns / tourists with shady motives , to keep the locals on their toes

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The Fall of “Baby Face”

“You’ll never take me alive, Injun whore!” proclaimed the 19 year old outlaw, Pete “Baby Face” Atkins as Moonbeam slowly advanced on the young horse thief. “You stole from the Kiowa,” the woman intoned darkly in a voice both calm and forbidding, “and for that you must pay!” The teenage desperado swallowed and, panicked, went for the sixgun at his side, but the warrior maiden was like lightning. She leapt forward, seized Pete’s right wrist with both hands, and swung him over her lithe body to send him crashing into the dust. He lay on his back, groaning, as Moonbeam’s pet mountain lion cub sniffed around him. He raised his head to see the formidable long legged form of the female brave standing over him, arms akimbo.

“Please, ma’am,” begged the youth, tears beginning to course down his filthy face, “don’t hand me over to your people! Don’t let them burn me alive, or cut off my balls, or stake me out in the sun covered in honey for the soldier ants to find!” Moonbeam looked down on the baby-faced rustler, a puzzled expression on her face. “And please, ma’am,” the defeated outlaw continued, “please don’t scalp me!” And the young man suddenly burst into tears. Moonbeam reached out an arm and hauled the babbling and sobbing boy to his feet. She took his gun and pushed it into the belt of her flowing buckskin dress, and then removed the bandana from the neck of the cringing bad man. She spun him around and used the cloth to tie the terrified Pete’s hands behind his back. “You have been reading too many dime novels, young man,” the female warrior told her prisoner impatiently as she bound him. “Now take me to where you have hidden the Kiowa horses. Then I will decide what to do with you.”

My interpretation of the story behind Manestrale Slar Til, Solvpilen #22 (November 1976). Solvpilen was the Norwegian language version of Zilverpijl, or Silver Arrow, the adventures of a Kiowa chief, and his formidable female sidekick, Moonbeam. Both characters were the creation of Belgian artist Frank Sels, whose originals were written in Flemish.

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This Stacked Star Tear dress was made by Cherokee artist, Tonia Hogner-Weavel. It won the Judges Choice Award at the 9th Annual Cherokee Homecoming Art Show in 2004.  

The Cherokee Tear dress was adopted in 1975 as the official tribal dress for the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Many believe that the tear dress originated with the ‘Trail of Tears’ death march of Eastern Cherokees to Indian Territory, what is now Oklahoma, in 1838-1839. This actually is not true. The dress was created in what appeared to be an embarrassing situation for the Oklahoma Cherokees in 1968. Virginia Stroud was chosen to be "Miss Indian America" and was crowned wearing a Kiowa style dress. A group of Cherokee women approached W.W. Keeler, Chief at the time, to talk about creating a new dress that would represent the Cherokee Nation. After extensive research for a true representative style of the Cherokees, the tear dress was designed. The name refers to the actual tearing, not cutting, of cloth to make the dresses.  

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About me post!

Name: Apollo

Age: 21

Gender: Demiboy

Sexuality: not straight but questioning

I'm a Comanche/ Kiowa artist who's trying to improve and find his style. I'm trying to break my habit of negative talking my art and focus on things I like about my drawings. While I do occasionally slip, I usually try not to let it get too out of hand. Feel free to offer any helpful tips, I am open to CONSTRUCTIVE criticism.

Fandoms:

Mortal Kombat

Spiderman: Into + Across the Spiderverse

Call of Duty Zombies

Star Wars

DC Comics

Slowly getting into Marvel beyond just Spiderverse

Fnaf

That's about it because I find it hard to get into things 😅

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Indigenous People’s Day 2022

Today we commemorate Indigenous People’s Day with art by Native American Women from Hearts of Our People: Native American Artists. This exhibition catalog was published in Minneapolis in 2019 by the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) in conjunction with the University of Washington Press to accompany the traveling exhibit “Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists.” The exhibition catalog was prepared by MIA curator Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Kiowa artist Teri Greeves. 

While the exhibit and its catalog featured art from antiquity through the present, I decided to primarily focus on the work of living artists, with the exception of the marble by Edmonia Lewis. Lewis, born in the mid-19th century to an African-Hatian father and a Black and Mississauga mother, is credited with being the first African American and first Native American to attain international success in the art scene. Trained in and working out of Rome, Lewis incorporated themes of Blackness and Indigeneity into her Neoclassical sculptural work. Whether through the subversion of traditionally European artforms or the reimagining of Indigenous traditions, the contemporary artists featured here alongside Lewis bring the depth of Native visual languages to a wide range of mediums.

Explore the exhibit further through the exhibition page from the Smithsonian American Art Institute, which hosted the exhibit from February 21-March 13, 2020.  

View past Indigenous People’s Day posts here.

Find more posts on Native Americans here. 

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Beatport Dance Floor Essentials April 2024: Organic H / D

- Artists: Beatport DATE CREATED: 2024-04-29 GENRES: Organic House / Downtempo Tracklist : 1. Sebastien Leger - Kasiope(Original Mix) 2. Newman (I Love) - Leave In Silence(Original Mix) 3. Facundo Mohrr, Maxi Degrassi - Revolver(Original Mix) 4. Fabian Krooss, Frida Darko - Phoenix(Original Mix) 5. Dodeca - Kiowa(Original Mix) 6. Roni Iron - Inside My Head(Extended Mix) 7. Rashid Ajami - Wasting Time(Original Mix) 8. BT - Time Moves So Fast(PROFF & Volen Sentir's Timestop Extended Remix) 9. Nato Medrado - Deus é Você(Original Mix) 10. Tuba Twooz - Gotta Be A Freak(Original Mix) 11. Tim Green, Dulus - Silver Fade(Original Mix) 12. Nareg - Cosmic Rhapsody(Original Mix) 13. Cesar Abril - Modern Times(Original Mix) 14. CaHen - Rigel(Domingo + Loveclub Extended Remix) 15. Amir Telem - Rasa(Original Mix) 16. Bliz Nochi, Tayr Anour - Fortuna(Original Mix) 17. T-Puse, Lev Tatarov - So Much Love feat. Katty Heath(Rapossa Remix) 18. The Policy - Maashaven(Dennis Read the full article

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Beatport Dance Floor Essentials April 2024: Organic H / D

- Artists: Beatport DATE CREATED: 2024-04-29 GENRES: Organic House / Downtempo Tracklist : 1. Sebastien Leger - Kasiope(Original Mix) 2. Newman (I Love) - Leave In Silence(Original Mix) 3. Facundo Mohrr, Maxi Degrassi - Revolver(Original Mix) 4. Fabian Krooss, Frida Darko - Phoenix(Original Mix) 5. Dodeca - Kiowa(Original Mix) 6. Roni Iron - Inside My Head(Extended Mix) 7. Rashid Ajami - Wasting Time(Original Mix) 8. BT - Time Moves So Fast(PROFF & Volen Sentir's Timestop Extended Remix) 9. Nato Medrado - Deus é Você(Original Mix) 10. Tuba Twooz - Gotta Be A Freak(Original Mix) 11. Tim Green, Dulus - Silver Fade(Original Mix) 12. Nareg - Cosmic Rhapsody(Original Mix) 13. Cesar Abril - Modern Times(Original Mix) 14. CaHen - Rigel(Domingo + Loveclub Extended Remix) 15. Amir Telem - Rasa(Original Mix) 16. Bliz Nochi, Tayr Anour - Fortuna(Original Mix) 17. T-Puse, Lev Tatarov - So Much Love feat. Katty Heath(Rapossa Remix) 18. The Policy - Maashaven(Dennis Read the full article

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1.Elevator, Kiowa County, from the Kansas Documentary Survey Project                                                                                        Artist          Larry W. Schwarm                                        Date                          1974              

2.      Larry W. Schwarm, Comanche County, from the Kansas Documentary Survey Project, 1974, gelatin silver print, image: 7 × 7 in. (17.8 × 17.8 cm) , Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.1209, © 1975, Larry W. Schwarm      

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THE KIOWA FIVE

The Kiowa Five (or Six) stepped beyond ledger art to develop a distinctive style that continues to influence Indian artists

By LES KRUGER 11/25/2015

Picture of many works of these artists are online . At the Khan Academy there's a presentation of a series of murals by the eldest of the artist, Stephen Mopope: Stephen Mopope, U.S. Post Office Murals, Anadarko, OK.

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Moonbeam to the Rescue!

The young warrior glared out from the undergrowth at the tepees of the Kiowa, arrogantly guarded by dismounted troopers of the Seventh Cavalry. Why the paleface army had broken the longstanding truce between her people and the settlers, Moonbeam did not know. All she did know was that her friend Little Elk, princess of the Kiowa, was in the foremost tepee, along with her tame cougar pet, Brave Heart. Clearly the braves had been confined to their lodges because there was no man of her people to be seen, and the soldiers stood three abreast outside each tepee, armed and grim, to prevent any escape. All but one: the tent containing Little Elk which was guarded by one bored looking bluecoat: the cavalry felt but a single guard would be sufficient to prevent a mere squaw’s escape. As darkness fell, Moonbeam stood up, her long buckskin dress flowing in the early evening breeze, her brown and shapely legs taking her nonchalantly towards Little Elk’s abode. At her approach, the soldier stiffened and then relaxed with a grin, eyeing Moonbeam’s legs. “What are doing out after dark, squaw? Head back to your lodge!” he ordered. Moonbeam smiled at the man submissively and murmured something about wishing to borrow a recipe from the princess. The soldier frowned, noticing the Comanche style battle knife at the young woman’s side. “I said git!” he said, raising his voice forcefully and then made a sudden grab for the knife from its sheath. “And I’ll have that!”

This was the moment the female warrior needed. She laid hold of the soldier’s forearm as he reached out towards her waist. With one easy movement, the warrior turned away from her assailant, pulled the man by his arm until his unbalanced upper body rested on her back and with an almighty heave, she hoisted the man over her shoulder, flinging him to the ground with a thud. While the man looked up, dazed and in pain, Moonbeam pulled out her knife and knelt next to her victim, holding it to his throat. “You want this Comanche blade, soldier?” she hissed. “Shall I give it to you?” “No, no, you Injun witch, I give…” Moonbeam’s strong hand clasped his mouth, interrupting the man’s surrender to her. The entrance flap to the tepee was pulled open and there was a grinning Little Elk holding it wide while Moonbeam, having resheathed her knife, gagged her captive with his own yellow cavalry scarf. She then bundled him through the entrance and flung the soldier face down onto the ground. Wordlessly Little Elk flung her rescuer a coil of rope and then fell to gathering up some simple supplies into a buckskin bag while Brave Heart looked on. Moonbeam tied the soldier’s hands behind his back, bound his ankles and then tied his limbs together in a tight hogtie. “Are you prepared, princess?” she asked her friend. “We must begin our trek to Canada now!” Little Elk nodded, then took up a strip of cloth to blindfold the cavalryman. “You are not worthy to gaze upon a princess of the Kiowa!” she told the terrified looking prisoner imperiously. Then women and cougar crept from the tepee and into the welcoming woods beyond the lodge.

My interpretation of the story behind this cover to Solvpilen, a Swedish language comic from the 1970s and 1980s, created by Belgian artist Frank Sels. The comic featured the exploits of Kiowa warrior Siver Arrow, who was assisted by a tough female sidekick named Moonbeam. The story, published in November 1982, translates from the Swedish as Escape from the Camp of the Blakjen.

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mwm fcs by players?

hello! a survey has been conducted on discord: logan lerman, idris elba, matthew gray gubbler, troye sivan, keiynan lonsdale, paul wesley, lucien laviscount, jacob artist, rob lowe, evan mock, ronen rubinstein, grant gustin, gregg sulkin, rahul kohli, oscar isaac, pedro pascal, ben barnes, adam dimarco, archie renaux, oliver jackson cohen, kiowa gordon, jeremy allen white, will poulter, kim mingyu, diego calva, avan jogia, penn badgley, raymond ablack, glen powell, joseph morgan, daniel gillies, michael malarkey, charles michael davis, michael trevino.