Keeping Time: Ledger Drawings and the Pictographic Traditions of Native North Americans ca. 1820-1900

EXHIBITION HAS BEEN EXTENDED AND WILL CLOSE ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2014

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Exhibition runs from June 21 to August 16, 2014

Opening reception: Saturday, June 21 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Remarks at 3:00 pm on June 21 by Guest Speaker Ross Frank, Director, Plains Indian Ledger Art Project (PILA) and Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, San Diego

Works by Kent Monkman will also be on view, including his 2007 black and white film Shooting Geronimo

This exhibition is held in cooperation with the Donald Ellis Gallery, New York

Please see attachment to read the essay Love and War: The Rise of Plains Ledger Drawings in the Nineteenth Century by Janet Catherine Berlo, a scholar of Plains ledger art.

Image Credit:
Sioux Medicine Men, attributed to Howling Wolf, Southern Cheyenne, Central Plains,
ca. 1875
Ink, pencil and watercolour on paper
21.6 x 28.6 cm