Original Painting of Apache Warriors [SOLD]

Allan Houser, a Chiricahua Apache, was indisputably one of America's foremost artists in mediums of sculpture, drawing, paintings, wood carving or whatever medium he chose to try. He was a modernist as well as a traditionalist and was certainly one of the most famous Native American artists of the 20th century.  By the 1980s, his reputation was firmly established.  His paintings were featured in a celebration of Native art at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC in 1981 and included in a Smithsonian exhibit that traveled to South America.  That same year, he exhibited in the legendary Salon d'Automne in Paris, France.

Houser is most known for his sculptures because that is the medium he worked in in the latter part of his career when he was best known as the artist he was.  His paintings are rarer than his sculptures and are highly desired by collectors of Native art.

This painting of two Apache warriors in pursuit of animals or enemy is an extraordinary representation of his truly outstanding talent as a painter.  The nostrils of the horses and the fear in their eyes are evidence of the speed the riders are forcing on them and their intent on carrying through with their mission.  Houser's interpretative manner in representing the dust being raised by the action of the horses is artistic in itself. 

To state that this is an exceptional painting is an understatement.  Any accolades one could add to that are well deserved.

Condition:  appears to be in original condition, but has not been examine out of the frame.

Provenance: from a Santa Fe couple

Recommended Reading:  Allan Houser: An American Master (Chiricahua Apache, 1914-1994) by W. Jackson Rushing III