Allan Houser HA-O-ZOUS [SOLD]

Allan Houser (Ha-o-zous)

By Barbara H. Perlman

Publisher: Glenn Green Galleries, Santa Fe, 1992

Second Edition Hardback with slipcover, 1992.

Distributed by Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC

Allan Houser, a Chiricahua Apache, is indisputably one of America's foremost artists in mediums of sculpture, drawing, paintings, wood carving or whatever medium he chose to try.  He was a modernist as well as a traditionalist and is certainly one of the most famous Native American artists of the 20^th century.

"The first major book on the life and work of the dean of Native American sculptors... The text of this book skillfully interweaves Houser's life as an artist and his personal background, fully discussing the works in terms of their origins, aesthetic characteristics, and relation to the history of sculpture, while revealing the artist's philosophy and view of the world... Illustrated are nearly 300 works, 132 of them in full color, as well as many rare and fascinating photographs documenting the story of Allan Houser and his people."

Condition: good condition