Penni Cross - Artist Info

About Penni Cross

  • Biography

    Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross, (Alawa-sta-we-ches) was born in Washington state in 1939. She first studied with her portrait-painter mother, before beginning more formal studies in 1968.

    Her work is commercially oriented, sentimentalizing her paintings of Native Americans of the Crow tribe. Cross' Crow name, "Alawa-sta-we-ches," means "Travels the Good Road." She currently (2003) lives and works in Montana.


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    http://legendary.org/theo/Artists/Cross.html

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