Carl Sweezy (1881–1953) was a Southern Arapaho painter from Oklahoma . He painted individual portraits, but was best known for his portrayals of ceremonies and dances.
8-469: Sweezy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Carl Sweezy (1881–1953), American painter J. R. Sweezy (born 1989), American football player Nancy Sweezy (1921–2010), American artist, author, folklorist, advocate, scholar, and preservationist Paul Sweezy (1910–2004), Marxist economist, political activist, publisher, and editor [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
16-468: A dozen individual figures, with implied action and narrative. Sweezy developed a technique, employed by later Southern Plains artists, of painting an active Native American Church meeting by rolling up the tipi flaps to reveal the participants inside. Sweezy's work can be found in the following public art collections: Carl Sweezy died on May 28, 1953 in Lawton, Oklahoma . The corn road, we found,
24-409: A prolific painter, expanding his media and materials into the mid-20th century. By the 1920s Sweezy was a full-time painter. Sweezy worked in watercolors on paper and oil on canvas, as well as house paint on board. He was one of Cheyenne artist Dick West 's first artistic mentors. Although he painted individual portraits, he is known for his portrayals of ceremonies and dances, sometimes with over
32-410: A tribal policeman. Although he never received formal art training, he loved drawing and painting from an early age. An agency employee encouraged him with a gift of watercolor paints. Around 1895, when Sweezy was 14 years old, ethnographer James Mooney commissioned Sweezy to paint images of traditional Arapaho life. Later, Sweezy also worked with anthropologist George Dorsey. Sweezy continued to be
40-596: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Carl Sweezy Carl Sweezy was born in 1881 near the Darlington Agency on the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian Reservation in Indian Territory . His Arapaho name was Wó’oteen (new Arapaho orthography; old spelling - Wattan ), meaning "Black." Sweezy's father was Hinan Ba Seth, meaning "Big Man." His tribe still hunted buffalo when he
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56-616: Was a child. Sweezy's mother died early, so he lived full-time at the Mennonite Mission School at Darlington Agency. He later attended the Mennonite Boarding School of Halstead, Kansas , Carlisle Indian Boarding School in Pennsylvania , and Chilocco Indian Agricultural School , north of Ponca City, Oklahoma . For a season Sweezy was a professional baseball player, and later he worked as
64-430: Was different from the buffalo road in more ways than anyone, white or Indian, had realized, and the old people could not learn it in a hurry. —Carl Sweezy With war horses running, feathers and banners flying on the wind from spears and lances, shields and quivers shining at men's sides and shoulders, and women singing war songs for their men, I think a war party setting out, or coming in victorious, must have been one of
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