A Tree, Some Flowers, and Some Bees
Anishinabe, birch bark, tree, scene, wood, flowers, landscape
A birch bark tree stands with red and orange leaves. Flowers cover the base with birds and butterflies making their way toward the sun.
Pat and Gage Kruse
<a href="http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_kruse/selected/01.html">http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_kruse/selected/01.html</a>
2010
birch bark, red willow, and deer sinew; 48 x 36 inches
birch bark
Private Collection
All Races' Bouquet #1
Anishinabe, birch bark, flower, nature, design
Flowers extend up vertical diagonals from a central axis.
Pat and Gage Kruse
<a href="http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_kruse/selected/01.html">http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_kruse/selected/01.html</a>
2010
birch bark, red willow, and deer sinew; 48 x 28 inches
birch bark
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth
All Races' Bouquet #4
Anishinabe, birch bark, flower, nature, design
Flowers extend up vertical diagonals from a central axis.
Pat and Gage Kruse
<a href="http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_kruse/selected/01.html">http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_kruse/selected/01.html</a>
2010
birch bark, red willow, and deer sinew; 38 x 36 inches
birch bark
Microsoft Art Collection
American Gothic
White Earth, Ojibwe, folk art, Native American, pop culture, political issues, social issues, icons
"Bradley’s projections reformulate latent Native American stereotypes with complex interconnected cognitive images reinvigorating the history of art as intersecting webs." -- Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
David Bradley
<a href="http://www.iaia.edu/museum/vision-project/artists/david-bradley/">http://www.iaia.edu/museum/vision-project/artists/david-bradley/</a>
2008
Acrylic on canvas; 48 x 36 inches
painting
American Gothic, The Farmer's Daughter
White Earth, Ojibwe, folk art, Native American, pop culture, political issues, social issues, icons
"Bradley’s projections reformulate latent Native American stereotypes with complex interconnected cognitive images reinvigorating the history of art as intersecting webs." -- Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
David Bradley
<a href="http://blueraingallery.com/artists/david_bradley/original_paintings/11309">http://blueraingallery.com/artists/david_bradley/original_paintings/11309</a>
Acrylic on canvas
painting
Blue Rain Gallery
American Indian Death Song
White Earth, Ojibwe, pop culture, mentors, warriors, artists, social issues, color
This work is comprised of several pop cultural, political, artistic, and social characters and motifs in bright colors that sublimate their role and acceptance.
Frank Big Bear
<a href="http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_big_bear/selected/01.html">http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_big_bear/selected/01.html</a>
1986
Colored pencil on paper; 30.25 x 44 inches
graphic art
Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul
Black Elk's Little Sandman
White Earth, Ojibwe, Arapahoe, color, nature, pop culture, animals
The artist's work plays on social and political issues with pop culture images and motifs in bright and pure colors.
Star Wallowing Bull
<a href="http://plainsart.org/collections/star-wallowing-bull/">http://plainsart.org/collections/star-wallowing-bull/</a>
2002
Prismacolor pencils on paper; 36 x 50 inches
graphic art
Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
Chemical Man in a Toxic World
White Earth, Ojibwe, pop culture, mentors, warriors, artists, social issues, color
This work is comprised of several pop cultural, political, artistic, and social characters and motifs in bright colors that sublimate their role and acceptance.
Frank Big Bear
<a href="http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_big_bear/selected/01.html">http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_big_bear/selected/01.html</a>
1991
Colored pencil on paper; 60.75 x 44 inches
graphic art
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
City Lights, Nuclear Lights
White Earth, Ojibwe, pop culture, mentors, warriors, artists, social issues, color
This work is comprised of several pop cultural, political, artistic, and social characters and motifs in bright colors that sublimate their role and acceptance.
Frank Big Bear
<a href="http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_big_bear/selected/01.html">http://www.bockleygallery.com/artist_big_bear/selected/01.html</a>
2006
Colored pencil on paper; 7.5 x 30.25 inches
graphic art
The British Museum, London, UK
Earth Mother
White Earth, Ojibwe, folk art, Native American, pop culture, political issues, social issues, icons
"Bradley’s projections reformulate latent Native American stereotypes with complex interconnected cognitive images reinvigorating the history of art as intersecting webs." -- Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
David Bradley
<a href="http://blueraingallery.com/artists/david_bradley/bronze_sculpture/11312">http://blueraingallery.com/artists/david_bradley/bronze_sculpture/11312</a>
Bronze with patinas
sculpture
Blue Rain Gallery