Midcentury Native American Painting

Early Steven Sles oil on linen painting circa 1964. Sles was a mouth painter with very limited use of his hands. He was also a student of Hans Hoffman. This example has a wonderful l...

This multicolored expressionist style painting by American artist Eleanor Coen depicts the layered feeling of a city with its patchwork of buildings and l...

Colin Chillag oil on canvas from 2005. This work uses masterful impasto technique to make a 1950’s photo vignette come to life.

American painter Merrill Mahaffey, known primarily for his landscape paintings of the Southwest, provides a decidedly different style with this clean-...

Dick Sutphen oil painting, circa 1968. Beautiful flow of color and movement.

Large scale acrylic on board painting by Jim Proctor, circa late 1960s. This example has vibrant hues of oranges yellows and blacks and has compositional depth and great flow. This w...

Sourced from the estate of the late Oklahoma artist Clair Seglam. An airforce man for most of his life, Seglem only began painting after his retirement. Most known for his vibrant portraits and nudes, he completed a vast portfolio of work before he died in 2020. This piece is part of a collection that was found in one of his old sketchbooks. It was hidden away in our warehouse when we happened upon it during inventory one day. To our surprise, the notebook held a jewel box of unseen work. This piece is a portrait of a native woman on a brown background. The woman has long braided dark hair and wears a black sleeveless top. She has a red lip and long beaded earrings. The background is a watercolor...

Lloyd Kakepetum (1958) is a Keewaywin first nation band member who was born on the Sandy lake reserve in the far reaches of northern Ontario near the M...

Powerful realistic oil on canvas of Native American signed Braun in a carved in a black wood frame.

Abstract figural painting, oil on canvas in simple wood frame. Signed Jalovick and dated 1954.

The Cree are indigenous people originally living in Manitoba, Canada. However, one branch later moved southwest to adopt a buffalo-hunting culture. This group, called the Plains Cree...

Signed L.R Laffitte Watercolor of a Cree Native American on silk mounted on laid paper, Signed in pencil at the bottom. The Cree are indigenous people originally living in Manitoba, ...