13th Annual Contemporary American Indian Painting Exhibition May 6 through May 29, 1958. (Cover title)
Tulsa: Philbrook Art Center, 1959. illustrations, folded (6)-page brochure. 24 cm. Oscar Howe's abstract painting titled "Umine Wacipi" was initially rejected from the show because the judges deemed it "not Indian." Howe protested writing in part: “Are we to be held back forever with one phase of Indian painting, that is the most common way? We are to be herded like a bunch of sheep, with no right for individualism, dictated [to] as the Indian has always been . . . " The jury relented and that painting appears in this brochure under Plains Tribes and priced at $200. The Statement of the Jury includes the following: "The jury is convinced that the present Philbrook policy of asking artists to enter works executed in traditional style is a sound one. In general, we have adhered to it in selecting the paintings to be hung in the Indian Painting Annual. However, in a few cases where a painting in a non-traditional style is of unusual value on its own merits we have stretched a point to include it. That is not to say that we recommend any change in the current policy -- only that we hope that we may be forgiven a resonable flexibility in carrying it out." Very Good. Item #92934
Price: $50.00