Art Show at Lovetts Gallery

A Time of Honor, 36 x 30, oil on canvas

You may know that I attend very few art shows (I hate to travel). But when I was invited to participate in a show in my hometown of Tulsa I agreed to be there.

Lovetts Gallery Summer Perspective,
6528 E. 51st ST
Tulsa, OK 74145
Saturday, June 16th, 10:00-5:00

The show will hang until July 16

I'm looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting news ones. I hope you can make it.

Contact me or the Lovetts Gallery for more information

Rodeo Queen

Rodeo Queen, 40 x 30, oil on linen

Who doesn't love a cowgirl decked out in a big hat, scarf, Fancy gauntlets (I want a pair!) and boots? This painting is based on a Rodeo performer from the 1920's.

Available

When the Sun Has Set

When the Sun has Set, 48 x 24, oil on cradled board

This Plains Indian wears an eagle feather headdress and a buckskin shirt. His face is painted blue with a hand (coup mark)

SOLD

Heart of a Nation by K Henderson

Heart of a Nation, 30 x 30, oil on linen

This Plains Indian is wearing an eagle feather headdress. The shafts of the feathers are wrapped in red Trade Cloth. Bells, ribbon and cloth also adorn the band of the headdress.

His face is painted white with a black hand or coup mark.

Trade Cloth or "Stroud Cloth" was a cheap woolen cloth made from woolen rags and exported to the North American Indians. It was made in the town of Stroud in Glouchestershire County, England. The cloth was dyed red, blue, green, or black, and had a white edge that resulted from the dying process.

SOLD

Cowgirl Dreams

Cowgirl Dreams, oil on linen, 24 x 18

This painting is another in my series of Silver Screen Cowgirls. This little lady wears a hat, gauntlets, scarf and western shirt. The sepia tones brings us back to the times before Cowgirls were in Technicolor.

SOLD

Daughter of the West

A Cowgirl and her six shooter

Daughter of the West, oil on linen, 40 x 30

This painting is based on a 1920's era Silent Screen Cowgirl. The sepia tone captures the feeling of the first images of Cowgirls.

This painting will soon be on it's way to Lovetts Gallery in Tulsa. Contact me for more information about this or other paintings

SOLD

Hubbard Museum Biennale Grande

Summerfall, oil on canvas, 36 x 30

For those of you that will be in New Mexico in the next few months, be sure and stop by The Hubbard Museum of the American West for their Biennale Grande show.

The Opening Reception will be April 7, 1:00 - 3:00.
The Hubbard Museum of the American West
26301 Highway 70 West
Ruidoso Downs, NM
(575) 378-4142

The art will be on exhibit April 7 - July 15, 2012

A New Dawn

A New Dawn, 28 x 22, oil on linen

A young Plains Indian warrior prepares for a new day. He wears a beaded, eagle feather bonnet and a red scarf. His hair is tied in Trade Cloth. His face is painted with white clay. A red tear symbolizes those that have fallen in battle.

Contact me for purchase information.

SOLD

I Arise From the Dark of Night

I Arise from the Dark of Night, 30 x 40, oil on Canvas

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The colors of the painting are almost monochromatic earth colors. The title comes from an American Indian story that tells of the Raven rescuing the stolen sun and returning it to the sky.

The Warrior wears feathers from many birds. His shield is painted with a bird image. He wears white stripes of paint on his face.

Arapaho

Arapaho, 30 x 30, oil on canvas

This painting of an Arapaho is based on an old Photograph. The Plains Indian is wearing a bone breast plate, a Peace Medal and a quilled shirt

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Voice of Thunder

Voice of Thunder, 20 x 30, oil on linen

This is based on a turn of last century photograph. The Plains Indian is wearing a feathered bonnet with eagle feathers.

If you are interested in purchasing this painting please contact me for price and availability

The Traveler

The Traveler, 48 x 24, oil on linen

Breastplates had originally been worn as armor and for protection in both battle and hunting.
Later breastplates became a status symbol among many Native Americans.

History of the Hair Pipe

About the year 1880 the Plains Indians began to obtain a cheaper and much less fragile hair pipe.

Trader Joseph H. Sherburne's first year of trade with the Ponca, had among his wares a quantity of corncob pipes. The corncob bowls were equipped with bone stems. These pipes sold readily but without comment from the Indians. Upon his next trip to the Ponca, Mr. Sherburne found the corncob pipes in great demand. White Eagle, chief of the tribe, showed him an elaborate neck ornament made of the bone stems of the pipes strung on buckskin thongs. He wanted more pipestems in quantity. This began the commerical trade of the 'hair pipe'.

Trust the Soul

Trust the Soul, 20 x 30, oil on linen

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This painting shows a Plains Indian with a painted face. The painted hand indicates that he touched an enemy during a battle