Hello friends and Hivians. Today, I share more of the Joslyn museum. This time the artwork has direct ties to the United States. It was quite massave so I'll show a few that caught my eye. Let's get to it, shall we?
The American artist credited to this magnificent piece is Thomas Hart Benton. I like how the sunlight in the portrait just flows through the painting. The scenery of people and animals just give off vibes that they need to take cover immediately. A nice captured painting of a storm rolling in!
Here we have some paintings from members of the Kiowa tribe. Six art students from this tribe attended the University of Oklahoma. Their work received international acclaim and they soon became known as The Kiowa six. Their art inspiration came from their Kiowa culture and lifestyles. Many of their paintings show powwow dancers, Native American church ceremonies and the Kiowa lifestyle. As i was looking at them I imagined them moving and hearing the sound of drums, rattles and chanting.
I really like this advertisement art done by fellow American, Newell Convers Wyeth. This would have been the early days of automobiles. It just shows the car was the new horse. Look at the dust it's kicking up and what it's pulling away from. During the times the Native Americans were probably one of the last to use the horse as a mode of primary transportation. Now I don't think this would have been a realiatic scene, even in 1919. Maybe if someone accidentally drove onto a reservation.
American painter, Marvin Cone really took me back to my childhood with this painting. Now I wasn't born in the 1940's but I did live in an old farm house growing up. Yes, the old house had doors like this, wall paper too and even hard wood floors. It wasn't until the1980's when my parents decided to do a little bit of modern renovations.
If you didn't know I live in the state of Iowa so I had to show this one. Also the painter, Grant Wood lived his entire life in Iowa. This is a great example of a boomtown where many years ago it had a good number of people living there. This was due to it's limestone quarry mines, hence the name of the town. At the time of the painting, the city had already seen its population decline. The big decline was due to the development of Portland Cement. So this town had a transformation from a small industrial town to basically a tiny small rural town. Today, according to the 2020 census , it has 186 residents.
German-American painter Albert Bierstadt works mostly included large-scale paintings from the America West. These are a great examples of his works. The one it appears to be a morning mist over the countryside while some cows look to bathe. The ladder shows an awesome sunrise over Lake Tahoe while the trappers set sail to start thier day. .
Painter Oscar Howe (Yanktonai Nakota Sioux) painting shows what many Native American paintings appear to look like. To me, it shows the utmost respect that the Natives had for Mother Earth. Another easy one for me to share because the painter grew up in my birth state, South Dakota.
Henry Ritter, a German painter, got the inspiration to paint this one reading about the American West and Great Plains from Novels. It was pretty remarkable as he never even visited the Great Plains. He fooled me when I looked at the depiction next to the painting. Well done, I think it's a great painting and it really fits in well with other American landscaping paintings.
I found this American artwork quite neat. It's not just oil based as it also includes plates, deer antlers, and Bondo on wood. What a way to express the characteristics of a womans body! I imagine this work took a great deal of time.
This bronze statue really transported me back in time. It felt like this Native American Chief was piercings my soul. A very serious and determined looking figure. Such great detail in this one as I felt a tomahawk might come swinging near me, hehe.
Alright the depiction had all these sophisticated things that this American artist accomplished in the painting. It contains wax crayons, pencil, ball point pen, colored pencil and ink on paper. It was the one piece of art I could think I could come up with something very similar to. I could try, but it would only be worth the value of materials I used. Would it be saved for others to view in the future? Not unless you retrieved it from the trash, haha.
I hope you enjoyed the American and Native American art I shared with you. Were there any of them you found interesting? There was much more, but I think I gave you a good sample size.
Take care, stay safe and enjoy the rest of the weekend. Until next time!