White Buffalo Gouache Painting

Item Details

Bobby Hill “White Buffalo” (Kiowa tribe, Oklahoma, 1933 – 1984)
Untitled, 1971
Gouache on paper
Signed and dated to lower right

An untitled gouache painting on paper by Kiowa artist Bobby Hill ‘White Buffalo’ (1933 – 1984), dated 1971. This painting depicts a man standing with his horse in a blustery and snowy field with his bare hand raising a rifle. The man stands over a freshly hunted buffalo laying face down in the snow. The painting is signed and dated to the lower right and presented in a wooden frame behind mat and glass.
Bobby Hill used the name White Buffalo throughout his career. He was born in Lawton, Oklahoma and graduated from Anadarko High School in 1953. After serving in Korea as a draftsman in the U.S. Air Force, Bobby Hill remained in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He took various free-lance painting jobs, became a set designer, worked as a technical illustrator, a commercial artist, and a promotional director for manufacturing companies.
His work has been featured in several private and public art collections and exhibited at the American Indian Exposition (Anadarko, OK), the Philbrook Museum of Art (Tulsa, OK), and the Peabody Museum of Salem, MA. Hill won awards for his artwork and was given a solo exhibition at the Southern Plains Indian Museum & Craft Center.

Condition

- surface abrasions to edges of frame; punctures and adhesive to verso.

Dimensions

- measures frame; visible image measures 14.25" W x 19.25" H.

Item #

18CHI241-002