Allan Houser ( June 29, 1914 - August 22, 1994) was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century.
Born of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, a Chiricahua Apache tribe in Oklahoma, Houser's work can be found at the United Nations building in New York City, at the US National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. and in other public buildings throughout the US capital.
From humble beginnings came a man who t...
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Allan Houser ( June 29, 1914 - August 22, 1994) was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century.
Born of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, a Chiricahua Apache tribe in Oklahoma, Houser's work can be found at the United Nations building in New York City, at the US National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. and in other public buildings throughout the US capital.
From humble beginnings came a man who took on two of the great conversations of his time – the Native American experience, and the challenges posed by abstract modernism – and forged a new way of seeing both visions.
Born in 1914 to Sam and Blossom Haozous on the family farm in Apache, Oklahoma near Fort Sill, Native American artist Allan Houser was the first member of his family from the Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache tribe born outside of captivity since Geronimo’s 1886 surrender and the tribe's imprisonment by the US government. The tribe had been led in battle by the legendary...
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