Kiowa Indian Art Portfolio "Kiowa Family" [SOLD]

"Smoky was one of the Five Kiowas who received special art training at the University of Oklahoma. It has long been customary among the Plains Indians that women not draw or paint in a representational style. Because of this feeling, Smoky fought some resentment on the part of the Kiowa group at the University. Although her family, renowned as warriors, became well known as craftsmen, Smokey's art career was brief. She married and devoted herself fulltime to her husband and family."
-Snodgrass 1968.

This silkscreen "Kiowa Family" was one of the 30 silkscreens published in the portfolio Kiowa Indian Art—Watercolor Paintings in Color by the Indians of Oklahoma, by C. Szwedzicki of Nice, France, in 1929. Only 750 copies of the volume were published. This image is number 220 of the 750. It has been matted and shrink-wrapped, not framed.

Provenance: From the estate of Margaret Morse Nice, an ornithologist from Oklahoma.