Catalogue Number 1950.74 from "Accession" Series

Artist Red Star, Wendy (born 1981)

Date2019

Dimensionsimage: 18 × 28 in. (45.7 × 71.1 cm)
frame: 27 × 39 in. (68.6 × 99.1 cm)

ClassificationsART, 2-DIMENSIONAL

Credit LineClara S. Peck Fund

Object number2021.2.9

DescriptionIn the foreground is a photograph of an Apsáalooke boy on a black horse appears in front of a beaded textile. The words “1 section of design pattern” on the left indicate that the colorful illustration is only part of a larger piece. A similar piece with bright colors and geometric patterning hangs down across the horse’s shoulders. The horse is also draped with pastel blankets, white fur and a blue teardrop-shaped decoration. Photograph taken during the Crow Nation’s Annual Crow Fair in Montana. The photograph is layered on top of a watercolor illustration from the Denver Art Museum’s card catalogue of Native objects.

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