Collections | National Museum of the American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) has one of the most extensive collections of Native American arts and artifacts in the world—approximately 266,000 catalog records (825,000 items) representing over 12,000 years of history and more than 1,200 indigenous cultures throughout the Americas. Ranging from ancient Paleo-Indian points ...
Native American art | History, Styles, & Facts | Britannica
Nov 7, 2024 · Native American art, the visual art of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Americas, often called American Indians. Though there are a great variety of forms and designs in American Indian art, many art objects are often intended to perform a service—for example, to act as a container or to provide a means of worship.
Native American Artists - National Gallery of Art
Highlights from Our Collection. Emmi Whitehorse, , 2020, mixed media on paper on canvas, William A. Clark Fund, 2022.41.1. Richard Ray Whitman, Robert Franklin, Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Do Indian Artists Go to Santa Fe When They Die?, 1988, color offset lithograph on wove Arches paper, Gift of Funds from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation ...
Native and Indigenous Art | Smithsonian American Art Museum
May 26, 2023 · Native and Indigenous Art. Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, State Names, 2000, oil, collage and mixed media on canvas, 48 x 72 in. (121.9 x 182.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Ann Dugan and museum purchase, 2004.28. SAAM’s collection includes many remarkable artworks that reflect the profound and longstanding contributions ...
11 Influential Native American Artists | Artsy
Nov 9, 2021 · Correction: A previous version of this article stated that Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s painting,“I See Red: Target” (1992), was the first artwork by a Native American artist to be acquired by the National Gallery of Art. It was the first painting the institution acquired by a Native American artist.
Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection
Jul 14, 2023 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Promised Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker. Native Perspectives: Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902). The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (detail), 1863. Oil on canvas, 73 1/2 x 120 3/4 in. (186.7 x 306.7 cm).
Heard Museum | Celebrating Indigenous Creativity
Explore the Heard Museum Shop. Our Shop sells hundreds of authentic pieces made and bought directly from American Indian artists. Build your collection and support working artists. Get all the latest Heard Museum updates in your inbox. Explore 12 galleries of American Indian art, contemporary and historic, and a world-class museum shop and café.
Indigenous Arts of North America | Denver Art Museum
Biannual Symposium on American Indian Art . Every other year the Native arts department hosts a symposium on topics related to American Indian art. Through this event the scholarly dialog on American Indian art is advanced. Past symposia includes: Dressing for the Creator: Indigenous Art and the Power of Spectacle (March 29, 2022) Who Owns Culture?
Native American Art | 10,000 Years Of Native Art - PEM
PEM houses some of the oldest active collections of Native American art in the Western Hemisphere, commencing with the museum’s founding in 1799 and continuing through today. Spanning more than 10,000 years of Indigenous visual expression in the Americas, these works cross boundaries of region, period and medium, and emphasize the continuum ...
Mary Sully: A Reclamation - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1 day ago · Mary Sully: A Reclamation. November 14, 2024. 11 min. watch. For decades, the work of Native American artist Mary Sully remained unseen by almost anyone beyond her family. Historian Philip Deloria, Sully’s great-nephew, shares how a discovery in his family’s basement brought this great artist’s work to light.