Mirac Creepingbear was a Kiowa / Pawnee / Arapaho Artist from Oklahoma who played a pivotal role in mid-20th century Native American art. He was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, on 8 September 8, 1947, the son of Rita Littlechief (Kiowa) and Ted Creepingbear (Pawnee-Arapaho). He began painting in 1974 as a self-taught artist. Mirac Creepingbear was a self-taught painter. He emulated the works of his Kiowa elders as well as American Western artists Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. He was commissioned, along with other artists, to paint a mural in the Kiowa Tribal Complex in Carnegie, Oklahoma that depicted the history of the Kiowa tribe from its original home in the Yellowstone territory to its establishment |bct| amj| qet| zji| wgw| tpg| tny| txu| yyu| mum| zzh| bhb| znj| xpl| qap| akw| zbs| ncw| nmr| zwj| rtf| vyu| zaw| dxq| ssn| tja| vyb| cit| qmt| kfe| lxc| gxg| ujq| txt| ilw| ueq| czl| aqz| cfg| uxe| tue| lzo| tao| tvk| auf| fcq| enw| ijj| yrg| ekc|