Indigenous Art: A Modernist Influencer

I am truly pleased to be sharing this live “Knowledge Sharing Presentation” on Oscar Howe, to International Society of Appraisers colleagues and peers, in such close proximity to Indigenous Peoples’ Day. 

From Howe, a modernist painter who told his “Dakota Sioux” nation’s stories through painting, in a 1958 letter: “Are we to be held back forever with one phase of Indian painting…with no right for individualism, dictated to as the Indian always has been…? I only hope, the Art World will not be one more contributor to holding us in chains.”

Fortunately, collections and collectors now appreciate this individualism, as do the many generations he influenced.