Catalogue Number 1947.110 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 number2021.2.12

DescriptionIn the foreground is a photograph of an Apsáalooke individual on a white and brown horse appears in front of a brown, beaded bag with geometric blue and red patterning. A beaded bag with similar triangular patterning hangs from the horse’s saddle. A second sketch of a textured bag painted with black lines appears behind the figure. Blankets, fringed leather, strips of fur and decorative cords hang across the horse’s back and neck and an embroidered hood covers the horse’s head. The figure, dressed in a red and green elk tooth garment, drinks from a water bottle. 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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