Nov 5, 2019 | Blog, Collections, Exhibitions, Great Lakes, Native American, Pohrt Collection
By Bryan Corbin, Storyteller magazine editor Potawatomi, Otoe, Ojibwe and Wyandot artists Moccasins, ca. 1800–ca. 1890 Tanned and smoked deerskin, glass seed beads, ribbon applique, silk ribbon, moose hair Museum purchase with funds provided by a grant from Lilly...
Oct 7, 2019 | Blog, Contemporary, Events, Exhibitions, Fellowship, Fellowship Artists, Native American
Rita Letendre (Abenaki) Sunburst, 1971 Oil on canvas 31 x 40 inches Museum Purchase: Eiteljorg Fellowship As part of the Eiteljorg Museum’s ongoing commitment to contemporary Native American art, five artists who are this year’s Eiteljorg Fellows will be celebrated...
Sep 20, 2019 | Contemporary, Exhibitions, Native American, Photography, Press Releases
Smithsonian traveling exhibition features poignant moments by photographer Horace Poolaw INDIANAPOLIS – An exhibition at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art features more than 75 striking photographs of Native peoples of the Southern Plains during...
Sep 16, 2019 | Blog, Exhibitions, Great Lakes, Native American
Native American Art magazine in its October/November 2019 issue published this wonderful article about the Eiteljorg Museum acquiring a collection of rare, historic Native American artworks from the Great Lakes region. Read the article at this link: Native American...
Sep 12, 2019 | Exhibitions, Press Releases, Quest, Quest for the West, Western Collection
More than $1 million in art sold; awards presented to artists; painter remembered Terri Kelly Moyers Zuni Patterns, 2019 Oil on gesso board 20 x 16 inches INDIANAPOLIS – More than $1 million of top quality Western art was sold Sept. 6-7 during the Quest for the West®...
Sep 11, 2019 | Blog, Exhibitions, Quest for the West, Western Collection
By Johanna M. Blume, interim curator of Western art, history and culture Last year, artist H. David Wright of Gallatin, Tenn., was named by The Western Art Society as the Artist of Distinction at the Quest for the West® Art Show and Sale. A new exhibition of...