Native Portraiture: Power and Perception
What is communicated when an outsider portrays someone from another culture?
On Extended View
In order of appearance: Charles M. Russell (American, 1864–1926), Indian Canoe Party (detail), 1906. Watercolor on paper, 13 3/4 × 21 5/8 in. (34.9 × 54.9 cm). Tacoma Art Museum, Haub Family Collection, Gift of Erivan and Helga Haub, 2017.14.42. Photo © TAM, photo courtesy of Laura McCurdy. Kevin Red Star (Apsáalooke Nation, born 1943), Buffalo Horse Medicine (detail), circa 2007. Mixed media, 44 × 40 in. (111.8 × 101.6 cm). Tacoma Art Museum, Haub Family Collection, Gift of Erivan and Helga Haub, 2015.29.12. Photo © TAM, photo by Richard Nicol. Ernest L. Blumenschein (American, 1874–1960), Taos Indian Chief, circa 1915. Oil on canvas, 14 1/4 × 16 1/4 in. (36.2 × 41.3 cm). Tacoma Art Museum, Haub Family Collection, Gift of Erivan and Helga Haub, 2017.14.8. Photo © TAM, photo courtesy of Laura McCurdy.