I met this girl at an annual Dance and Indian Taco competition in Pawhuska, OK.
She and her talented family are involved in Native American dance competitions at various pow wows. I didn't get to see this girl dance but I got to visit with her family and take photos which led to me doing several paintings. Her heritage is Sioux, Delaware and Cherokee. Her beautiful regalia in this painting is typical of the Sioux beaded deerskin the women wore.
This girl's Native American name is "Walks in Dewy Fields". Isn't that lovely?!
This painting has won several awards including Best of Show in Women Artists of the West annual show and sale held in Boulder, CO.
One of the awards I received as a result was a full page ad in Southwest Art magazine.
This photo shows the frame I used for this painting. In choosing one, I took my cue from our wonderful Philbrook Art Museum here in Tulsa. Many of the paintings in the gallery's collection are framed in more ornate gold frames like this. I remember in particular the inaugural show at Philbrook of a traveling collection of some of William-Adolph Bouguereau's paintings our curator assembled and borrowed from museums all over the country to add to Philbrook's own impressive collection. These were sent to a series of museums to be enjoyed by others over a period of five years. Most of his paintings were framed like this. And why wouldn't a painting of a Princess like Walks in Dewy Fields feel at home in such a frame!
She and her talented family are involved in Native American dance competitions at various pow wows. I didn't get to see this girl dance but I got to visit with her family and take photos which led to me doing several paintings. Her heritage is Sioux, Delaware and Cherokee. Her beautiful regalia in this painting is typical of the Sioux beaded deerskin the women wore.
This girl's Native American name is "Walks in Dewy Fields". Isn't that lovely?!
This painting has won several awards including Best of Show in Women Artists of the West annual show and sale held in Boulder, CO.
One of the awards I received as a result was a full page ad in Southwest Art magazine.
This photo shows the frame I used for this painting. In choosing one, I took my cue from our wonderful Philbrook Art Museum here in Tulsa. Many of the paintings in the gallery's collection are framed in more ornate gold frames like this.
I remember in particular the inaugural show at Philbrook of a traveling collection of some of William-Adolph Bouguereau's paintings our curator assembled and borrowed from museums all over the country to add to Philbrook's own impressive collection. These were sent to a series of museums to be enjoyed by others over a period of five years. Most of his paintings were framed like this.
And why wouldn't a painting of a Princess like Walks in Dewy Fields feel at home in such a frame!