Special Value Offer: Painting of Kiowa Fancy War Dancer [SOLD]

Special Value Offer:  The consignors of this painting have agreed to drop the price from the original price of $4500 to a new price of only $2500, a decrease of almost 50%.

This wonderful painting of a Kiowa Fancy War Dancer is one of two Mopope paintings we just acquired. The other one is of an Eagle Dancer (Item #C2830A). Both pieces are in very good condition and both are unframed. The colors are still very vivid as the pieces have been put away out of light source for decades. There is some creasing of the paper but not in the area of the painting.

Mopope was born and raised on the Kiowa Reservation, Indian Territory, later to become Oklahoma. He was primarily a painter and dancer most of his life. Mopope’s grandfather was a Spanish captive, kidnapped by the Kiowa from a wagon train crossing the prairie and reared by Chief Many Bears. On the Kiowa side he was a descendant of Appiatan, a noted Kiowa warrior.

Mopope’s childhood education by his grandmother was in the Kiowa tradition. Additionally, he studied with Susie Peters of the Kiowa Agency in Anadarko, Oklahoma, and at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, in the late 1920s. He is one of the original Oklahoma artists known as the “Kiowa Five.”