Copper Plate Etching “Last Sunset” [SOLD]

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Woodrow Wilson Crumbo Potawatomi Painter and Printmaker
  • Category: Original Prints
  • Origin: Potawatomi Nation
  • Medium: copper plate etching - unnumbered
  • Size: 4-5/8” x 5-7/8” image;
    9-5/8” x 10-5/8” framed
  • Item # C3720G
  • SOLD

Annotation and signature of artist: Woodrow Wilson Crumbo (1912-1989) Woody Crumbo

Woody Crumbo was widely known for his copper plate etchings, silk screen prints and paintingsThe etchings and silkscreen prints were his contribution to making his art affordable to more people in an attempt to bring to the world the nature of Indian lives and art.  The copper plate etchings, such as this one, were titled and signed but not numbered so there is no record of the quantity produced of each image.

 

This image, entitled "Last Sunset," shows a couple of menacing coyotes eyeing a lone bison. Their intent is obvious and the title doesn't suggest otherwise. This proud buffalo will not go down without putting up a valiant fight and this would seem like a dangerous and enduring standoff.  Coyotes and Mexican Grey Wolves (both are found in New Mexico) can look similar.  But, according to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service there are differences between Mexican Grey wolves and coyotes.  To help distinguish between the two, please see the reference below.

 

Crumbo spent six decades promoting his art and making it available to a mass market.  When he died on April 4, 1989, he had spent years as a curator at museums such as the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa and the El Paso Museum of Art in Texas to assist those museums in establishing their Native American Art collections.

 

Condition: appears to be in original condition

Provenance: from the estate of John and Dixie Yeaple, owners of a gallery in the La Fonda Hotel in Taos from 1945-1949, and then director and curator of The Millicent Rogers Museum from 1950 to 1977.

Recommended Reading: Uprising! Woody Crumbo’s Indian Art by Robert Perry

According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service there are differences between Mexican Grey wolves and coyote

 

Woodrow Wilson Crumbo Potawatomi Painter and Printmaker
  • Category: Original Prints
  • Origin: Potawatomi Nation
  • Medium: copper plate etching - unnumbered
  • Size: 4-5/8” x 5-7/8” image;
    9-5/8” x 10-5/8” framed
  • Item # C3720G
  • SOLD

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