Catalogue Number 1935.33.a,b 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 number2021.2.10

DescriptionIn the foreground is a photograph of an Apsáalooke boy on a brown horse appears in front of a blue and red pant leg. He wears a similar garment embellished with yellow strips of fabric and decorative medallions. The boy also wears flowered cuffs and a wide-brimmed hat wrapped in a pink cloth and carries a feathered fan. The horse is draped with woven blankets, an animal skin and a striking orange fur blanket. 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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