Lorenzo Beard (born 1914), also called Horse Chief, was a Cheyenne-Arapaho American painter whose subjects included buffalo and ceremonial figures.[1][2][3] His work has been exhibited across the world, including at the National Gallery of Art and as part of the University of Oklahoma's European Tours in the 1950s. Beard's artwork has been in the permanent collections of institutions including the University of Oklahoma Museum of Art and the Southwest Museum of the American Indian.[1]
Lorenzo Beard | |
|---|---|
| Horse Chief | |
| Born | 1914 |
| Nationality | American, Cheyenne, Arapaho |
| Alma mater | Santa Fe Indian School |
| Occupation | painter |
Beard attended the Concho Indian Boarding School as a child and graduated from the Santa Fe Indian School.[1] He often painted in the flat Studio Style typical of Santa Fe's students.[4] Scholar Oliver La Farge described Beard's painting "Women's Buffalo Dance" as having an "interestingly primitive and strongly symbolic quality."[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c King, Jeanne Snodgrass (1968). American Indian painters; a biographical directory. Smithsonian Libraries. New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. p. 14.
- ^ "Lorenzo Beard - Biography". www.askart.com. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
- ^ Bernstein, Bruce (1995). Modern by tradition : American Indian painting in the studio style. Santa Fe, N.M.: Museum of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-89013-286-9.
- ^ Handbook of the North American Indians. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. 1978. ISBN 978-0-16-080388-8.
- ^ La Farge, Oliver (1956). A pictorial history of the American Indian. New York: Crown Publishers.
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