Picturing Change
December 11, 2004, through May 15, 2005
The Impact of Ledger Drawing on Native American Art
Location
Temporary Exhibitions, Gutman Gallery
About
This exhibition reveals the impact of ledger drawings on transformations in Native American pictorial arts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The works in this exhibition illustrate how Native American artists adopted and adapted Western materials, methods, and conventions to their own artistic traditions, thereby inventing new art forms that comment upon and document cultural transitions brought on by Western education and cultural domination.
This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, and is generously funded by the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Hall Fund. The lecture series was made possible by the generous support of the Allen and Joan Bildner Endowment for Human and Inter-group Relations, the Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Native American Studies Program, and the Ed and Molly Scheu Fund in Native American Studies.
Exhibition Curator
Barbara Thompson
Additional Information
Related Exhibitions
- Contemporary Native American Ledger Art: Drawing on Tradition
- Native American Ledger Drawings from the Hood Museum of Art: The Mark Lansburgh Collection