Native American Highlights – Inventories of American Painting & Sculpture

The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s research databases -- the Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture -- provide descriptive data on over 350,000 art works, done by artists born or working in this country. This is a small sampling of works listed in the Inventories which pertain to Native Americans and Native American history. Follow the links below and explore our nation’s rich collection of Native American art.

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Find works by these selected Native American painters:

Albert Jacquez (1895-1962)

Julian Martinez (1879-1943)

Stephen Mopope (1898-1974)

Portraits of Indians

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.’” –Crowfoot

Find depictions of Native Americans in outdoor sculpture:

Find works by these selected Native American sculptors:

Enrique Alferez (1901- )

Richmond Barthe (1901-1989)

Haozous (1943- )

Allan Houser (1914-1994)

Charles Huntington (1925- )

Doug Hyde (1946- )

Gary Price (1955- )

Native American Subjects:

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