Native American
This tag marks artwork connected to Native American culture, history, or artistic tradition, work that may draw on specific visual symbols, patterns, or storytelling passed down through generations. It spans painting, sculpture, and other mediums, sometimes made by Native American artists themselves, sometimes depicting Native American subjects and history. Use this tag to find work engaged with these traditions and the cultures behind them, a thread that runs through a meaningful part of art made across North America.
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Examining the influence of 19th-century Plains Indian culture on Western art
How Plains Indian life in the 1800s shaped Western art, from early portraits by Catlin and Bodmer to contemporary painters, and why perspective matters.
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Historical depictions of the American frontier: Analyzing the narratives in Western art
How Western art tells the story of the American frontier: romantic myths, real history, and the perspectives that paintings include or leave out.
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The evolution of American Western art: From Remington to Martin Grelle
Trace American Western art from Frederic Remington and Charles Russell to today’s painters such as Martin Grelle, and how the frontier image changed.
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Logan Maxwell Hagege
Logan Maxwell Hagege is an American painter, born in 1980 and based in Ojai, California, known for his stylized, design-driven depictions of the Southwest’s red cliffs and desert skies. Classically trained and influenced by artists like Maynard Dixon and N.C. Wyeth, his work is held in nine museum collections, including the Autry Museum and the…
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Jeremy Winborg
Jeremy Winborg is an American painter, born in 1979 in Salt Lake City, who grew up working alongside his illustrator father and now lives in Cache Valley, Utah. Inspired by the birth of his Navajo niece, he paints historically accurate portraits of Native Americans set against bold, abstract backgrounds built with palette knife work. His…
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Ritch Gaiti | Paintings
Ritch Gaiti is a self-taught American painter, born in 1954 in Brooklyn, who left a career as a Wall Street technology executive to paint the spirit and energy of wild horses on the open range. Working in oils with a warm palette and textured surfaces, he also depicts Native American heritage and the natural world,…
