Original Oscar Howe Painting “Mallard” [R]

Oscar Howe was a student at The Studio at the Santa Fe Indian School between 1935 and 1938. He earned his BA from Dakota Wesleyan University in 1952 and his MFA the following year from the University of Oklahoma. 

The earliest listed exhibition for Howe took place in 1956 at the prestigious Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma.   His work is included in every major museum with an emphasis in fine Native American Art.   Some of these are: the Denver Art Museum; the Heard Museum; the Oscar Howe Art Center; the Joslyn Art Museum; the Museum of the American Indian; the Montclair Art Museum; the Museum of New Mexico; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; the Philbrook Museum of Art; the Sioux Indian Museum and Craft Center and the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles.

A letter from John A. Day, formerly of the College of Fine Arts, University of South Dakota, concerning this painting is reproduced here.  John Day was scheduled to write the defining book on Oscar Howe’s contributions to Indian art, but Day passed away before doing so.