Two Guns Arikara

Series Title: Memorial Woodcut Suite

c. 1978

Aberbach Fine Art

(New York)

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Culture

America

Medium

color woodcut

Measurements

Image: 47.9 x 39.5 cm (18 7/8 x 15 9/16 in.); Sheet: 64 x 51 cm (25 3/16 x 20 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Partial purchase from the Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund and partial gift from Stephen Dull 2025.5.1

Edition

154/200

Impression

154

This artwork is known to be under copyright.

Location

101B Prints & Drawings

Did You Know?

T. C. Cannon studied with Native American painter Fritz Scholder while a student at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Description

One of the most highly sought-after Indigenous artists, Cannon was a talented painter and an enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe. His distinct portraits of Native subjects, infused with a bright color palette and drawing from a Pop aesthetic, combine both traditional and contemporary aesthetic traditions. The group in its entirety gives an overview of the artist’s unique visual vocabulary and investigations into the nuance and complexity of Indigenous identity. Each print is based on a major painting in the artist’s oeuvre.

A vertically oriented woodcut depicts a man with brown skin tone and pink hair seated in a green armchair, facing our right. He holds two revolvers across his lap while wearing a white shirt with voluminous sleeves, a black vest, red sash, and blue pants. The background features purple and lavender sections patterned with yellow rings and floral motifs, with a column of colored blocks along the right edge.

Two Guns Arikara

c. 1978

T. C. Cannon, Maeda Kentaro, Matashiro Uchikawa, Aberbach Fine Art

(Kiowa-Caddo, 1946–1978), (Japanese, c. 1891–1987), (Japanese, active 1900s), (New York)

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