Native American Art

with an emphasis on representational art

Articles and essays from Resource Library in chronological order:

2013

Eah-Ha-Wa (Eva Mirabal) and Jonathan Warm Day Coming (3/7/13)

2012

• Katsina in Hopi Life (2/25/12)
• Elegance From Earth: Hopi Pottery (3/14/12)

2011

• The Art of Ceremony: American Indian Painting of the 20th Century (12/12/11)

2010

• Native American Ledger Drawings from the Hood Museum of Art: The Mark Lansburgh Collection (11/12/10)
• Engaging with Nature: American and Native American Artists (A.D. 1200-2004) (6/17/10)
• Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection (4/5/10)
• Walking in Harmony: The Life and Work of Lomawywesa, Michael Kabotie (3/15/10)

2009

• Albino R. Hinojosa: An American Realist (9/5/09)
• Passionate Journey: The Grice Collection of Native American Art (8/3/09)
• Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art (9/2/09)
• Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art (4/9/09)
• Mothers & Daughters: Stories in Clay (1/28/09)

2008

• Giinaquq (Like A Face): Sugpiaq Masks of the Kodiak Archipelago (12/19/08)
• "The Painted Arrow People": Art of the Cheyenne (11/12/08)
• S'abadeb -- The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists (11/8/08)
• Selections from The Richard E. and Dorothy Rawlings Nelson Collection of American Indian Art (10/24/08)
• Pueblo Clay, America's First Pottery (6/14/08)
• Old Traditions in New Pots: Silver Seed Pots from the Norman L. Sandfield Collection (5/14/08)
• Wrapped in Tradition: The Chihuly Collection of Native American Trade Blankets (5/9/08)
• The Poetry of Line: The Pen and Ink Drawings of Earl Biss (4/26/08)
• Many Colored Weaves (4/21/08)
• Native Couture: A History of Santa Fe Style (4/22/08)
• A Modern Kiva Mural (4/11/08)
• A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook from Fort Marion (1/25/08)

2007

• From Dreams May We Learn: Paintings and Drawings by Rabbett Before Horses (12/17/07)
• From Dreams May We Learn: Paintings and Drawings by Rabbett Before Horses; Inroduction by Ken Bloom (12/17/07)
• From Dreams May We Learn: Paintings and Drawings by Rabbett Before Horses; Narratives by Jean Buffalo (12/17/07)
• Blue Winds Dancing: The Whitecloud Collection of Native American Art (12/15/07)
• Crafted to Perfection: The Nancy & Alan Cameros Collection of Southwestern Pottery (12/13/07)
• Pip Brant: The Flying Carpet and Other Reusables; with essay by Eleanor Heartney (11/5/07)
• Portrait, Identity, Culture: Across Time, Space and Meaning (10/22/07)
• Clothing, Identity, and Creativity: The Importance of Embroidered Arts of the Plateau, Great Basin, and Plains in the William Healey Collection of Gauntlets; essay by Joyce M. Szabo (9/18/07)
• Frontier Shorthand: Beaded Gauntlets as a Symbol of Western Authenticity; essay by Steven L. Grafe (9/18/07)
• Myth and Reality: The Art of the Great Plains (9/18/07)
• Iroquois Games and Dances: Paintings by Tom Two Arrows (7/11/07)
• Plains Indian Drawings: The Gerald and Hope Solomons Collection (5/26/07)
• Elemental Forms: The Art of Dan and Arlo Namingha (5/3/07)
• Weaving a Collection: Native American Baskets from the Bruce Museum (2/18/07)
• Gifts of the Forest: Native Traditions in Wood and Bark (1/24/07)

2006

• Michael Scott: Farny Fables (12/13/06)
• Indian Modernism: Selections from the Silberman Collection (11/22/06)
• Text and Texture: Narrative in Contemporary Southwest Native American Art (11/8/06)
• The First 100 Years: Southern Plains Painting and Drawing (6/26/06)
• Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America (5/15//06)
• Forms of Exchange: Art of Native Peoples from the Edward J. Guarino Collection (5/10/06)
• Intersections, Native American Art in a New Light (5/10/06)

2005

• Addition of "Photographic Collage" by World-Renowned Thorney Lieberman to the Collection of the Rockwell Museum of Western Art (10/6/05)
• Fusing Traditions: Transformations in Glass by Native American Artists (4/23/05)
• Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: American Indian Art of the Ancient Midwest and South (2/11/05)
• People of the River: Native Arts of the Oregon Territory (1/25/05)

2004

• Picturing Change: The Impact of Ledger Drawings on Native American Art (11/24/04)
• Beneath A Turquoise Sky: Navajo Painters and Their World (5/27/04)
• Southwest Textiles: Pueblo and Navajo Traditions (2/20/04)
• Geometry and Symbolism: The Splendor of American Indian Parfleches from the Meredith Collection (2/11/04)
• Art of the Osage (2/9/04)
• The Fleischaker Collection: Western and Native American Art (1/29/04)
• Visualizing a Mission: Artifacts and Imagery of the Carlisle Indian School, 1879-1918 (1/17/04)
• The Norma K. and Edwin J. Seiferle Collection of Native American Art (1/17/04)
• Visualizing a Mission: Artifacts and Imagery of the Carlisle Indian School, 1879-1918 (1/17/04)

2003

• Artistic Expression: Essential to a Culture -- Selections from Native American Collections (10/2/03)
• Introduction to "Connecting Generations: Contemporary American Indian Dolls" by Twig Johnson and Napiura Taubman (10/2/03)
• American Indian Art at the Spencer Museum of Art (9/25/03)
• "Connecting Generations: Contemporary American Indian Dolls" and "Growing Up: Childhood in American and Native American Art" (9/22/03)
• Clara Neptune Keezer: A Legacy of Passamaquoddy Basket Making (9/11/03)
• The Responsive Eye: Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art (7/26/03)
• Walk in Beauty: Hózhó and Navajo Basketry (4/15/03)

2002

• Mountain, Family, Spirit: The Arts and Culture of the Ute Indians (8/19/02)

2000

• Weaving Culture: Baskets from the Museum of Northern Arizona Collections (10/18/00)
• Legends of Our Times: Native Ranching and Rodeo Life on the Plains and Plateau (9/21/00)
• Art of Grace and Passion: Antique American Indian Art (3/2/00)

1999

• Winter Camp: Honoring the Legacy - Contemporary Expressions of Oklahoma Tribal Art (12/4/99)
• Gifts of Pride and Love: Kiowa and Comanche Cradles (11/23/99)
• Down From the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast (5/13/99)
• Center for Native American Art at Portland Art Museum (5/13/99)

1998

• Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America (12/10/98)

Articles and essays from Resource Library regarding Navajo Weavings (also see Weaving for other resources)

• Many Colored Weaves (4/21/08)
• Trees in a Circle: Navajo Weavings of Teec Nos Pos (1/14/06)
• Woven Rainbows: American Indian Trade Blankets (11/21/05)
• Blanket Statements (9/19/05)
• Trees in a Circle: Navajo Weavings of Teec Nos Pos (9/15/04)
• Southwest Textiles: Pueblo and Navajo Traditions (2/20/04)
• Evolving Identities: Figurative Work from the 19th Century to Now (2/4/04)
• American Indian Art at the Spencer Museum of Art (9/25/03)
• Angel DeCora: American Artist and Educator; article by Sarah McAnulty (8/4/03)
• The Navajo Weaving Tradition (11/13/00)
• Stories Woven In: the Navajo Way of Seeing (9/9/99)
• Southwest Weaving: A Continuum (7/7/99)
• Navajo Weavings from the Getzwiller Collection (1/29/99)
• Gifts of the Spirit: Works by 19th Century and Contemporary Native American Artists (5/24/98)

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