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New Drawings Show the National Native American Veterans Memorial Taking Its Place on the National Mall. The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts has unanimously accepted the most recent phase of design ...
For These Native American Artists, ... Or the more realistic black-and-white pencil drawings of artist Chris Pappan. ... 2016 at the National Museum of the American Indian, ...
Mary Sully’s “Indian Church,” among 25 triptych drawings created by the artist from the 1920s to the 1940s, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in a show of graphic virtuosity.
It’s known as ledger art: the beautiful drawings made by American Plains Indians on notebooks brought westward by white settlers and the military. Today, they are unsettling and controversial ...
Laurie Whitehawk sits at her drafting table, making wavy lines with a pencil. The lines surround a back view of an American Indian woman, her hair elaborately braided with a beaded decoration, her ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opens the new exhibition “Keeping History: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings” in its Albert H. Small Documents Gallery Nov. 13. The exhibition focuses ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will open “Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe” this fall at its museum in Washington, D.C. The exhibition, the first major retrospective of ...