Artist Name :

Oreland Joe

Title :

Kiowa Delegate

Image Size :

14 X 8 X 5.5

Medium :

Utah alabaster

Price :

$2,400.00

Purchase :

Attend Art Sale or Call (918) 596-2725 after November 5, 2009

Biography:

Master sculptor Oreland C. Joe, Sr. is world–renowned for his work in stone and bronze. His work can be found in private, corporate and museum collections in the United States and abroad. Joe is a native New Mexican and is of Diné (Navajo) and Ute descent.

The influences in Joe’s life include his family and his travels abroad to France, Italy and Japan. Studying European art and culture as well as seeing and feeling the impressive artistic works of the masters in Greek, Roman, Renaissance and Baroque periods were significant life–changing experiences for him.

Joe’s love for art has placed him in an elite class of stone and bronze sculptors. His accomplishments are numerous and include being the first Native American to be admitted as a member of the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America organization. In 1995, he was commissioned by the Ponca City Native American Foundation to produce a monumental bronze, Chief Standing Bear. His monumental work titled Navajo Code Talker is outside the entrance of the Gallup Cultural Center, Gallup, New Mexico.