Teaching Packet

Art of the American Indian Frontier

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Based on an exhibition of decorative, ceremonial, and utilitarian objects produced in the late 18th and 19th centuries by the native peoples of the Eastern Woodlands and the Great Northern Plains, this packet explores how their dramatic and dynamic artistic styles evolved.
 

The Art of the American Indian Frontier loan packet includes:

  • a 48-page booklet
  • eight color study prints
  • a slideset with 20 works of art.

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A pale-skinned young woman with copper-orange hair, wearing a turquoise-blue robe, stands in a pastel-infused landscape in this stylized, vertical painting. The woman fills most of the left half of the composition. She faces our right in profile with her head bowed as she looks down at the silver and brown box she holds in her right hand, closer to us. Her body angles away from us so we see her back. Her hair is held back under a gold-colored headand, and her blue robe falls over a white skirt. Beyond her, rocky mountains in ice blue and pale lilac purple span the horizon, which comes about three-quarters of the way up the painting, beneath a pale, rose-pink sky. An area of mottled parchment-white to our right of the person could be a field. Along the bottom edge of the canvas, rounded and organic shapes in scarlet red, turquoise, lapis blue, golden and lemon yellow, and pumpkin orange could be abstracted earth or flowers at the woman’s feet.

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