Navajo Anderson Benally Painting -- The Women

This 1990 painting features evocative color and form, and was inspired by the occupation of Wounded Knee in the 1970s and by the Ghost Dance Religion. In the historic record of the occupation, it was the older women among the Lakota who first organized to bring attention to their deplorable, Reservation living conditions. Earlier, the Ghost Dance was brought to the Lakota with the promise of a regeneration of the buffalo herds and renewal of the old way of life. Among it's chief practitioners were the Lakota older men, women and children massacred by the US Army at Wounded Knee in 1890. According to Lakota tradition, "The spirit of a people is not dead until the hearts of their women are buried in the ground" which points to the strength of the latter day female warriors at Wounded Knee in the 1970s. The artist painted the image after completing his Master's Degree Thesis in Anthropology, and has worked in an impressionistic, semi-abstract, yet also symbolic form drawing from his Navajo and other Native American cultures, exclusively.It hung in our bricks and mortar gallery and was priced at $1400.00.

The image area measures approx. 29" x 22 1/2" with the overall framed size 38" x 29 1/2". The frame is "pickled" white oak, and the original matting is doubled. The painting has been in our private collection since it was completed, and has been protected from direct sunlight. The frame has glass included, which can be removed for shipping if the buyer prefers.

As a fine example of impressionistic American Indian fine art, this painting typifies the color and subjects that have given the artist his much-deserved reputation. This is an important work that will bring many admiring comments hanging in your home.

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