The Life and Art of Jerome Tiger: War to Peace, Death to Life [SOLD]
- Subject: Native American Easel Art
- Item # C4288K
- Date Published: Hardback with slip cover, first edition, 1980, autographed
- Size: 286 pages, profusely illustrated SOLD
The Life and Art of Jerome Tiger—War to Peace, Death to Life
By Peggy Tiger and Molly Babcock
The University of Oklahoma Press, Norman
Hardback with slip cover, first edition, 1980, autographed by both authors, 286 pages, profusely illustrated
From the Jacket:
By any measure, the life and art of Jerome Tiger are of undeniable fascination. In the past decade the Tiger art has come to be regarded as an almost inexplicable phenomenon and, at the same time, has created a growing curiosity about the artist. Here, for the first time, is the full story of Jerome Tiger, a story that is both as simple and, finally, as incomprehensible as his incredible gifts.
He was a fullblood Creek-Seminole, born in 1941 in Oklahoma. He grew up on the campgrounds that surrounded his grandfather's Indian Baptist church near Eufaula. There and, later, in Muskogee he attended public schools, learned English, and became familiar with such marvels of white culture as running water, indoor toilets, and telephones. He was a high school dropout, a street and ring fighter of exceptional ability, and a laborer. He married and had three children. And he died in 1967, at the age of twenty-six, of a gunshot wound to the head. The bones of this brief story are given flesh here and by his art: he left behind a legacy of exquisite beauty.
The young Tiger's uncanny ability for drawing....
- Subject: Native American Easel Art
- Item # C4288K
- Date Published: Hardback with slip cover, first edition, 1980, autographed
- Size: 286 pages, profusely illustrated SOLD
Publisher:
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Norman, OK
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