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Tom Lovell(1909-1997)Northern and Southern Cheyenne, Almost Strangers 18 x 26in
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Tom Lovell (1909-1997)
signed and dated 'Tom Lovell CA © 1995' (lower right), signed again and titled 'Tom Lovell' (on the frame)
oil on canvas
18 x 26in
Painted in 1995.
Footnotes
Provenance
Texas Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 1997.
Exhibited
Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, Cowboy Artists of America 30th Annual Sale & Exhibition, October 20 - November 19, 1995.
Literature
Phoenix Art Museum, Cowboy Artists of America 30th Annual Sale & Exhibition [exh. cat.], Flagstaff, Northland Press, 1995, n.p., half page color illustration.
Of the present work, Lovell wrote, 'Living hundreds of miles apart, the two branches of Cheyennes found that differences in dialects eventually made communication difficult. The Southerners had access to trade goods, firearms, blankets, knives, etc., while the more isolated Northerners were still armed with bows and arrows and dressed in buckskin. The man on the right is making the sign for 'cut finger'— sign language for 'Cheyenne,' as he strives to communicate with his Northern brother.'




















