Price Reduction! Color Woodblock Print "Tosca" [SOLD]

The owner has authorized us to reduce the price as shown (from $3,850.00).

T. C. Cannon died young and left behind a beautiful, powerful oeuvre. He was born in 1946 in Lawton, Oklahoma, and died as a result of an automobile accident in Santa Fe in 1978.

He had attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, studying with Fritz Scholder. He seemed somewhat bitter and distrustful of authority. One of his teachers suggested to T. C. that they get in two rocking chairs facing each other and rock and frown until all the aggression was gone. He was away from home for the first time, so perhaps his quiet and reflective nature was misread as bitterness.

Cannon has mischiefness in his work. He treated the Indian subject in brightly arrayed costumining as a “dandy.” He portrayed the Indian of a distant past, but placed him in today’s world. His people were always dressed to be beautiful.

“Indians With Gramophone” is a good example. Two beautifully dressed Indians are gathered around a gramophone listing to Tosca, in a room brightly decorated with wallpaper and a red commercial rug—a perfect example of traditional Indians in today’s world.

This image was completed after Cannon’s untimely death. Cannon had approved it. His father Walter Cannon signed it. It is numbered A.P.V (Artist Proof number five).

Provenance: From a private collection in Munich Germany.