Assortment of Paintings of Native American Scenes

Item Details

Provenance
Property from an American Midwestern Museum

An assortment of three paintings of Native American scenes. This set features a miniature portrait of a young girl weaving a basket titled Basket Weaver by Choctaw artist Gwen Coleman Lester (born 1956) rendered with acrylic on canvas. Also depicted is a genre scene of women weaving a baby basket titled Mother-to-be by Yurok artist Jeanie Ramos, created in 2000 and rendered with acrylic on canvas, and a woman selling pottery titled Santa Fe Morning by Potawatomi artist Brenda Kennedy, created in 1999 and rendered with gouache on paper. They are all signed in paint to the lower margin, and presented with informational artist labels to the verso. Basket Weaver is presented without glass in a gilt wooden frame. The other two painting are presented matted and housed in a wooden frames, and Santa Fe Morning is presented under glass.

Featured Choctaw artist Gwen Coleman Lester was born in Claremore, Oklahoma in 1956. She began her career in commercial art then moved to fine art where she experimented with different mediums. Her work is extremely influenced by her Choctaw heritage and the Choctaw language.

Dimensions

- Basket Weaver frame measures; image measures 3.75" W x 3.75" H; other paintings are approximately the same size.

Item #

17DCC191-052