Contemporary Native American Art & Jewelry

Over 160 lots of Contemporary Native American art and jewelry, paintings, works on paper, silkscreens, sculpture, and silver by artists of more than a dozen tribal nations: Navajo (Dine), Hopi, Zuni, Kiowa, Cheyenne, Potawatomi, Cherokee, and the Pueblos of San Ildefonso, Zia, Tesuque, Kewa (Santo Domingo), and Taos. The fine art traces 20th and 21st-century Native painting from the founding generation of Santa Fe Indian School and Bacone College "Studio Style" through its mid-century flowering into bold contemporary reinterpretation. Painters include Woody Crumbo (Potawatomi), the Gilcrease Museum's first artist-in-residence; Studio Style pioneers Harrison Begay and Andy Tsinajinnie (Navajo); Beatien Yazz,...