Ted Sitting Crow Garner, California Series
Ted Sitting Crow Garner
1957-
Silhasepa/Miniconjou/Lakota
Date
1978
Medium Specific
Watercolor on matboard
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Accession Number
1978.20.18.01
Credit
Gift of the Artist
Memo / Artist Statement
As a child, my parent's collection of Native American art, both traditional and contemporary, was a tremendous influence on my visualization. A Haida sculptor and silversmith, BIll Reid, lived with us for about two years and this was very important in my becoming an artist. Watching him work was my first experience with the processes of art. Since then, my influences have broadened to include other ethnic arts from around the world and modern abstract art, but Native American art remains a major source for my work, particularly art forms of the Pacific Northwest and Plains regions.
Artist Statement - Apr 1973
Artist Statement - Apr 1973
Biography
Ted Sitting Crow Garner is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Tribe, of Sihasapa and Miniconjou descent. He has been making sculpture in Chicago since the age of sixteen, and his own since the age of seventeen. He earned a B. F. A. from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1982; and while there founded its first formal student gallery, authoring its application and jurying guidelines as well as the referendum that was required to be approved by the student body in order for the gallery to be created.
(source: Skokie Northside Sculpture Park)
(source: Skokie Northside Sculpture Park)
Date of Bio