The performance of Indigenous identity through the lens of early 20th-century Modernism.
Location City: Denver
These challenging paintings visually separate Indigenous Americans from the Spanish elite; most were exported.
Francisco Clapera, set of sixteen casta paintings
These challenging paintings visually separate Indigenous Americans from the Spanish elite; most were exported.
Casta painting in the Spanish Americas
Six bears were required to create this necklace, meant imbue the Pawnee chief with protection and power.
Bear Claw Necklace (Pawnee)
The Southwest became a hub for artists seeking “quintessentially American” subjects beyond New York and Chicago.
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