Print titled 'Spirit Horse' by Woody Crumbo. Matted

IC–BUR–060

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Woodrow Crumbo was born in Lexington, Oklahoma in 1912, the son of an Indian mother and French father. He attended government schools as a child and received a scholarship to the American Indian Institute in Wichita for his last two years of high school. After three years at the University of Wichita, he transferred to the University of Oklahoma where he studied with Osca B. Jacobson. At the age of 21, he was appointed Director of Indian Art at Bacone College, the only institute of higher learning exclusively for Indians. While at Bacone, Crumbo conducted research into Indian design and revived ancient techniques of silverwork, vegetable dying and weaving. Crumbo was also known as a musician and Indian ceremonial dancer. He played the cedar wood flute and dance with Thurlow Lieurance's symphony in Wichita. A Pottawatomie Indian, Crumbo explores the traditions and ceremonies of his own tribe as well as those of the Creek, Sioux, and Kiowa nations. Crumbo works in oil and egg tempera, as well as in watercolor, sculpture, stained glass, and silkscreen. The largest collection of Crumbo's work, about 175 paintings, is owned by the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa. Woody Crumbo died in 1989 at Cimarron, New Mexico.

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