Original framed tempera painting on board, Tipi and Campfire, signed lower right Big Bow (Woodrow "Woody" Wilson Big Bow, Tse Ko Yate, Kiowa, Oklahoma, 1914-1988),.

Dimensiosn
sight: 13.75"h, 10.75"w
overall: 21.5"h, 18.5"w
5lbs

Acquired at an art auction in 2021. **Former Provenance: Liquidation of Koch Gallery, Fredericksburg, Texas (part 1)**

About the artist

Kiowa artist and grandson of a Kiowa chief, Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Big Bow was born in Carnegie, Oklahoma, on January 29, 1914. As a teenager he attended classes at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, where, under the personal guidance of Oscar B. Jacobson, he took advantage of the opportunity to receive instruction in painting. He was one of several young Kiowa artists at the university whose work was featured in exhibitions in Europe and subsequently published in folio editions of American Indian art, the first of their kind ever issued.

Big Bow graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1939 and afterward worked variously as a set painter for Western films and as a builder and contractor. He also produced mural decorations for the RCA Building in New York City and the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles. During World War II he designed the red and yellow Thunderbird insignia for Oklahoma's famed Forty-fifth Infantry Division.

Big Bow lived in Yukon in later years, exhibiting widely before his death in 1988. His work can be seen in a number of public collections, including the Gilcrease and Philbrook museums in Tulsa, the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City, the University of Oklahoma Museum of Art at Norman, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., the Heritage Center at the Red Cloud Indian School in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and the Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kansas.

Source: Oklahoma Historical Society


Condition:
Alterations: Original Condition Unaltered
Imperfections: Some Imperfections
Condition Notes: Excellent used condition. Few minor signs of wear from age and use.

Dimensions:
Height: 21.5 in.
Width: 18.5 in.
Depth: 2 in.

Category: Paintings
Origin: United States
Materials: Pine, Tempera

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Original Condition Unaltered; Some Imperfections; Excellent used condition. Few minor signs of wear from age and use.