Art of the Osage

Description

Celebrates two centuries of the art of the Osage people of northern Oklahoma The first comprehensive presentation of the art of the Osage people.
This volume draws together over two centuries’ worth of Osage art| tracing the patterns of Osage life and culture as they existed from contact to the present.
Art of the Osage draws together over two centuries’ worth of Osage art| tracing the patterns of Osage life and culture as they existed from contact to the present.
The Osage people thrived in the central Mississippi Valley fur trade from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries| were forcibly relocated into northern Oklahoma in the nineteenth century| and prospered again from mineral and oil wealth in the twentieth century.
Basic forms with early historic Osage art| it is still a dynamic and evolving artistic tradition.
Uninfluenced by external market forces| it represents one of a declining number of true indigenous living artistic traditions.
The works illustrated here reveal the bold yet subtle aesthetic of Osage art| one of the most distinctive and significant Native artistic traditions in the United States.