Special Value Offer: Original Painting of a Woman with Ladle in Hand [SOLD]

Special Value Offer: This is being offered at a 25% price reduction from $750 to $560.

Ben Adair Shoemaker (Quapaw/Shawnee/Cherokee) presents a daily occurrence on the reservation by painting a woman kneeling by a water jug while she ladles out water.  She is wrapped in a grey cape or blanket over her brown dress.  She is presented in profile.  The only background is a muted Sun. 

The painting is signed and dated in lower left Ben Adair Shoemaker ’82. It was delivered to us without frame and has now been matted and framed with acid-free materials and a wood frame. 

Shoemaker has been a full-time artist since 1978.  He is from Oklahoma and attended High School in Tulsa, the University of Tulsa and Tulsa Junior College.  His accolades exceed our space for listing as do the numerous exhibits of his paintings.  He was published in The Tulsa World in 1983, The Tulsa Tribune in 1987, and Muskogee Daily Phoenix in 1993.  He was designated a Master Artist in 1986 by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum, Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Condition:  excellent condition

Provenance:  Friends of the Commerce, Texas, Public Library