Eagle Dancer print, Oscar Howe

Item: Eagle Dancer, The South Dakota Art Museum Collection. Oscar Howe Family

Artist: Oscar Howe

Donor: Dr. Loren and Jean Tschetter

Description: Yanktonai Indian artist Oscar Howe (1915-1983) depicted Native America traditions through a modernist aesthetic painting style. He used his Dakota heritage to provide subject matter for his works.

Born on the Crow Creek Reservation in South Dakota, he was sent to the Pierre Indian Boarding School in 1922 at age seven. In 1938, he graduate from Santa Fe Indian School where he was taught by Dorothy Dunn, whi encouraged her students to use their Indian Culture to inspire the artwork.

Working largely in casein and gouache on heavy watercolor paper, How developed his mature style by 1960, which is marked by bright colo dynamic motion and pristine line. Howe was on the cutting edge of hi generation in the exploration of ways to break out of the stereotype imposed on Indian artists and to seek contemporary ways to communicat Indian values and ideas.

Over a forty-year career Howe earned many honors and awards, includin numerous grand and first prizes in national competitions; exhibitions i New York, London, and Paris; over fifty solo shows; and the Artist Laureat of South Dakota in 1954 among many others..

What is a Giclee?
Giclees are made with large format, high-end professional inkjet printers. Giclee is a French word meaning "to spray." Instead of being "pressed on the surface of the paper as in traditional offset printing, these inl are sprayed giving the resulting prints a far richer look that more closely resembles an original.

How to care for your Giclee print.

Under typical home or office lighting, Giclees made with wide-gamut pigmented inks are estimated to last over 130 years without noticeable fade. You can extend the life expectancy of a Giclee art print by not hanging them in direct sunlight or in rooms with excessive moisture.

• Name : Dr Loren and Jean Tschetter