Detail View: C. Szwedzicki: The North American Indian Works: Choctaw Ball Game

Work Record ID: 
248
Reproduction Record ID: 
248
Work Class: 
depictions
Work Type: 
print
Title: 
Les peintres indiens d'Amérique
Title Type: 
collective title
Title: 
American Indian painters
Title Type: 
alternate
Title: 
Choctaw Ball Game
Title Type: 
constructed title
Measurements: 
9.75 x 12.00 in (24.77 x 30.48 cm) on sheet 12.50 x 17.60 in (31.75 x 44.70 cm)
Measurement Type: 
dimensions
Material: 
paper (fiber product)
Material Type: 
support
Inscription: 
Below Image Right: CHIEF T. SAUL
Inscription: 
Above Image Right: PLANCHE 12 [Plate Number]
Creator: 
Saul, C. Terry, 1921-1976
Creator Dates: 
1921-1976
Creator Nationality: 
Choctaw // Chickasaw
Creator Name Variant: 
Ember of Fire (Tabaksi)
Creator Type: 
personal name
Creator Role: 
painter
Date: 
1950
Repository: 
Archives and Rare Books Library, University Libraries, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Repository Type: 
current repository
ID Number: 
12
ID Number Type: 
plate number
ID Number: 
ARB RB Oversize E98.A7 J18 1950 Vol. 1
ID Number Type: 
call number
Style Period: 
Indian art--North America
Style Period: 
Chickasaw
Culture: 
Native American
Culture: 
Chickasaw
Culture: 
Choctaw
Subject: 
Belts (Clothing)
Subject: 
Braids (Hairdressing)
Subject: 
Breechcloths
Subject: 
Face painting
Subject: 
Hairdressing
Subject: 
Body painting
Subject: 
Hair ornaments
Subject: 
Ball games
Subject: 
Ball sticks
Subject: 
Horsehair
Related Work: 
Jacobson, Oscar Brousse, 1882-1966. Les peintres indiens d'Amérique / [par] O. B. Jacobson [et] Jeanne d'Ucel. Nice (France): C. Szwedzicki, 1950.
Description: 
From: American Indian Painters, Vol. 1, p. 14: An Oklahoma artists of the younger generation that is coming to the front, Chief Saul was born in 1921. He first gave evidence of creative ability at Bacone College. After service with the 45th division in Africa, Sicily, Italy, France, Belgium, Germany and Austria, he returned to Oklahoma and, like so many veterans, enrolled as a student in the University of Oklahoma School of Art. He took the prescribed courses leading to a B.F.A. degree and received his M.F.A. in 1948. In addition to this, he prepared sketches of Indian life which he submitted for suggestion and criticism. These paintings are done in a personal style which is an adaption of the manner of the Plains Indians. The subjects of these paintings, however, are the traditional Choctaw and Chickasaw customs and legends that he knows. In 1847 two of his works were exhibited in the Second Annual Exhibition of Indian art at Philbrook Art Museum, Tulsa, where he won a prize. He was singled out for special honor by the magazine "Art Digest" with a reproduction of his "Choctaw Ball Game." Chief is a talented and industrious artist. It is too early in his art career to make predictions about his future or point the direction in which his art will develop, Red or White. He appears to be intrigued by modernism in its varied manifestations. (Collection, University of Oklahoma)
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