Major USA museums have chosen to add more than half of the artworks sold to date. Private collectors have acquired several highly significant examples. Oscar Howe’s magnificent painting Double Woman […]
5-23 January 2024 Phillips New York 432 Park Avenue NYC Oscar Howe Double Woman 1962 Examples by more than 60 artists working in a myriad of mediums from 1950 forward […]
Expectations were high, but not as lofty as the auction yielded. Auction estimates were recognized to be entirely out of touch with Howe’s past private sales records ($12,000-$18,000), but $180,000.00 […]
Talented American Indian artists acknowledged their debt to Oscar Howe. Why? Howe wrote an adamant 1958 response to his painting having been excluded from the Philbrook’s Indian Annual competition. His […]
“Ceremonial scalp dancing precedes the buying of the scalps. Only those who are pure of heart are allowed to dance the scalps, part of a ceremony to show respect for […]
Saturday November 10 2019 Santa Fe Auction’s online sale racked up strong results for American Indian artworks. Top painting performers were Fritz Scholder ($125,000-hammer price, $16,000-hammer price, $10,000-hammer price), Oscar […]
An exhibition titled Sakahan: 1st International Quinquennial of New Indigenous Art has issued a catalogue to correspond with its opening in May 2013. One of the authors, Gerald Vizenor, expressed […]
“Most Americans are totally unaware there is a great indigenous native American Art. But when you walk into such museums as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the […]
Appraisers are professionally about value, but this Saturday’s appraisal day at the Heard Museum reminded me of something. The man who bought one of the Oscar Howe paintings offered and […]
Simply type www.oscarhowe.org Click on Video button on the top tool bar Click on the image with the text “Oscar Howe the Sioux Painter” Devote 20 minutes to watch the video, […]