Posts tagged Native American art

August 9, 2010

Beyond Cowboys and Indians

Unique in the Midwest, the Eiteljorg’s collections of both Western and Native American art showcase the aesthetic of American West, in all its diversity.

George Winter documented a vanishing culture as it fell to the expansion of the United States. Through his close association with the Miami and Potawatomi tribes, he sketched the likenesses of many great Native Americans and documented the tribes and their activities.