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Lot # 42 - Woody Crumbo Serigraph Framed and Matted "Peace Pipe Prayer" 15 x 18" including frame. Frame may show dings from storage, Serigraph in good condition.
Woodrow Wilson Crumbo (Woody) (1912-1989) was an artist, Native American flute player, and dancer who lived and worked mostly in the West of the United States.
A Pottawatomie Indian, Crumbo explores in his art the traditions and ceremonies of his own tribe as well as those of the Creek, Sioux, and Kiowa nations, and says of his work, "I have always painted with the desire of developing Indian art so that it may be judged on art standards rather on its value as a curio—I am attempting to record Indian customs and legends now, while they are alive, to make them a part of the great American culture before these, too, become lost, only to be fragmentarily pieced together by fact and supposition.
His paintings are held by several major museums, including the Smithsonian Institution and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with a large collection at the Thomas Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Crumbo was a 1978 inductee into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame for his paintings.