Susan Kliewer
Lozen — Warrior Woman
Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery, Tucson/Santa Fe
Susan Kliewer, a native of California, has lived in Arizona for nearly 37 years, five of them at Marble Canyon Trading Post in a remote area of Northern Arizona near the Colorado River. Dreams of horses, deserts, canyons, rivers and sunsets have been her constant companions since she was a child.
A painter since the age of 10, she turned to sculpting in 1987 after working in an art casting foundry for 10 years. Susan won a competition to create a monument of Sedona Schnebly, in honor of one of the founders of Sedona, Arizona. Kliewer’s life-size fountain portraying the Sinagua people and a fountain of a Hopi Water Maiden are also to be found in Sedona.
Her depiction of the ways of Native Americans in everyday life, from the past as well as the present, has attracted major collectors from all over the world. More on Susan Kliewer
Map of Apachean peoples in the 18th century CE. Ch is for Chiricahua, WA for Western Apache, N for Navajo, M for Mescalero, J for Jicarilla, L for Lipan, Pl for Plains Apache. Lozen was Chiracahua and Dahteste was Mescalero (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiricahua, April 2012)
Lozen, the younger sister of the famous leader Victorio and a leader in her own right, she began riding horses at age seven. She learned the Apache art of war as taught to her by her Victorio.
Frank Rinehart
Hattie Tom, Chiricahua Apache, c. 1899
photographic print : platinum
Boston Public Library
Frank Albert Rinehart (February 12, 1861 – December 17, 1928) was an American photographer who captured Native American personalities and scenes, especially portrait settings of leaders and members of the delegations who attended the 1898 Indian Congress in Omaha. More on Frank Rinehart
Unknown artist
Victorio, chief of the Warm Springs Apaches, led his own people and some of the Mescaleros in the outbreak of 1879—80. After Grierson drove him from Texas, he was killed by Mexican. troops.
Museum of Nex Mexico
Howard Terpning
Paper That Talks Two Ways, The Treaty Signing
Canvas Edition
54 by 65 in, 137.16 x 165.1 cm
Private collection
This Original 57" X 70" Masterpiece Is Part Of Terpning's Private Collection. In The Painting, We See A Gathering Of Cheyenne And Sioux Men Intently Listening To A Man Who Is An Orator Among His People. The Words Of The Peace Commission Have Been Translated To Him And He Is Expressing His Distrust Of Those Words.
Howard Terpning (born November 5, 1927) is an American painter and illustrator best known for his paintings of Native Americans.
Born in Oak Park, Illinois and receiving his art education at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and the American Academy of Art, Howard Terpning became one of the best known and financially successful members of the Cowboy Artists of America.
He had an eight-year apprenticeship in commercial art in Chicago and then moved to New York City where he spent twenty five years as an illustrator, creating work for numerous publications including Time, Newsweek, Reader's Digest, Field and Stream and Cosmopolitan. Other clients included Gold label Cigars, Trans World Airlines (TWA) and Pendleton Woolen Mills.
In the mid-1970s, he dropped commercial work and moved to Arizona where, in 1974, he began doing his first western painting, and in 1979, was elected to the Cowboy Artists of America, an exclusive group of male painters dedicated to western genre.
His paintings focus on Native American people of the Great Plains during the nineteenth century and have earned numerous prestigious awards including about two dozen gold and silver medals from the Cowboy Artists of America. More on Howard Terpning
LOZEN
Art print
6 x 14 or 10 x 23
Shanina Conway - Native American Art
Lozen
Australian born artist Shanina Conway is a consummate and dramatic visual storyteller.
Whether it be her much loved Equine art or fantastic themes her work fascinates aesthetically and technically.
Skilled in various mediums and inspired by a variety of genres with a great appreciation for the early master painters Shanina has embraced new mediums to create dynamic art with a classical edge. More on Shanina Conway
Chris Douglas
Warrior Spirit
Model: the beautiful Lakisha Flores • Crow • N.Cheyenne • Chicana
Oil on canvas
20 x 20
Private collection
Chris Douglas: "As many of you know, I’m passionate about and study the history of the American West. Recently I was captivated by the story of Lozen. She was a Chiricahua Apache warrior born in the late 1840s. Her bravery and interest in the art of war became the stuff of legends over the decades. Known to historians as the “Apache Joan of Arc”. Lozen was a strong shield to her people, a spiritual leader and medicine woman. According to ancestral stories, she used her spiritual powers in battle. Lozen served beside Geronimo in the last of the wars in the Southwest, eventually helping to convince him to surrender. She was a hero to her people." More on this painting
Christopher Douglas has been drawing and painting since he was a child. In his teens, Douglas became deeply involved in the early punk rock movement in San Francisco which galvanized his appreciation of underground art and music. At age 20, he realized a long-standing dream and went to Paris to study art. The confines of a formal art school environment proved too restrictive for his restless nature, however, and Douglas decided to move to New York and get back into the experimental music scene. During this period, he designed record covers and posters for the bands he played with as well as for those of other artists. Ultimately, Douglas was able to parlay those skills into a career as a graphic artist. In 2003, he created a line of award-winning modern furniture and spent the next four years selling and marketing the line. Douglas still does graphics and furniture design and has returned to his love of painting. Abstract expressionism seems to suit his experimental ethos just fine. He lives in Portland, Oregon. More on Christopher Douglas
Apache Warrior Face Paint Painting by Paul Kane
Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 – February 20, 1871) was an Irish-born Canadian painter, famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and other Native Americans in the Columbia District.
A largely self-educated artist, Paul Kane grew up in York, Upper Canada (now Toronto) and trained himself by copying European masters on a "Grand Tour" study trip through Europe. He undertook two voyages through the Canadian northwest in 1845 and from 1846 to 1848. Having secured the support of the Hudson's Bay Company, he set out on a second, much longer voyage from Toronto across the Rocky Mountains.
On both trips Kane sketched and painted First Nations and Métis peoples. Upon his return to Toronto, he produced more than one hundred oil paintings from these sketches. The oil paintings he completed in his studio are considered a part of the Canadian heritage, although he often embellished them considerably, departing from the accuracy of his field sketches in favour of more dramatic scenes. Kane's work followed the tenets of salvage ethnography. More on Paul Kane
She stole a Mexican cavalry horse for the new mother, stole a vaquero’s horse for herself, acquired a soldier’s saddle, rifle, ammunition, blanket and canteen, and even his shirt. Finally, she delivered her charges to the reservation.
When she was away, in October 1880, while moving along the Rio Grande in northern Mexico, Victorio and his band were surrounded and killed by soldiers of the Mexican Army under Colonel Joaquin Terrazas in the Tres Castillos Mountains.
Unknown artist
Men, women, and children of Victorio’s band just after their capture by Mexican forces under Colonel Terrazas at Tres Castillos., c. 1880
Chihuahua, Mexico
Princeton Archives
Hearing this, Lozen left the Mescalero Reservation and rode southwest across the desert to join the decimated band in the Sierra Madre, now led by the 74-year-old patriarch Nana.
Lozen fought beside Nana and his handful of warriors in a two-month-long bloody campaign of vengeance across southwestern New Mexico in 1881. Lozen also fought beside Geronimo in the last campaign of the Apache wars.
Group photo (April 1886) of captive wives and children of the Apache leaders and warriors, - Geronimo-Perico-Bische-Mangus, - taken prisoner in the fall of 1885 and held at Fort Bowie. They were used by Gen. Crook to lure the Chiricahua men to the peace councils to be held at Canyon de los Embudos at the end of March 1886. Within a few hours of this photo, the unsuspecting women and children were sent into 27 years of captivity.
Taken into U. S. military custody after Geronimo’s final surrender, Lozen traveled as a prisoner of war to Mount Vernon Barracks in Alabama, where she contracted tuberculosis and died at the age of 50, never seeing her lands in New Mexico ever again.
Close inspection of this photograph reveals that this is the original source the image of Lozen (sitting on the upper part of the photo, third from the right)
Anna Magruder
Anna Magruder: This Portland artist looks back at the people and images of the past, re-imagining their lives and stories. These re-imaginings have a dreamlike quality to them, like old photos you’ve found in the family photo box, yet know one knows who they are or the stories behind them.Her muted color palette further reinforces the vintage feel of her work, so that they read almost like the faded Kodachrome images of the past. More on Anna Magruder
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