New Mexico, California. 1869 - 1934
Western-Indian genre and historical mural painting
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1868 Portland, Oregon - 1913 Flagstaff, Arizona. Known for: Southwest landscape and Hopi genre painting, illustration.
Born in Portland, Oregon, Louis Akin is associated with Grand Canyon views as well as scenes from Hopi Indian life. He is likely the best known of the Arizona landscape painters in the early 20th... Read full biography
Born in Portland, Oregon, Louis Akin is associated with Grand Canyon views as well as scenes from Hopi Indian life. He is likely the best known of the Arizona landscape painters in the early 20th century. His family had emigrated from Iowa to Oregon in 1852. As a young man, he worked as a sign... Read full biography
Born in Portland, Oregon, Louis Akin is associated with Grand Canyon views as well as scenes from Hopi Indian life. He is likely the best known of the Arizona landscape painters in the early 20th century. His family had emigrated from Iowa to Oregon in 1852. As a young man, he worked as a sign painter and then studied in New York City with William Merritt Chase and Frank DuMond. In 1901, "Harper's Weekly" published his illustrations," and in 1903, he was sent by Santa Fe Railway personnel to... Read full biography
Born in Portland, Oregon, Louis Akin is associated with Grand Canyon views as well as scenes from Hopi Indian life. He is likely the best known of the Arizona landscape painters in the early 20th century. His family had emigrated from Iowa to Oregon in 1852. As a young man, he worked as a sign painter and then studied in New York City with William Merritt Chase and Frank DuMond. In 1901, "Harper's Weekly" published his illustrations," and in 1903, he was sent by Santa Fe Railway personnel to paint the Hopi Indians in Oraibi, Arizona. For eighteen months, he stayed in the Hopi Pueblo of Oraibi where he rented a room for seventy-five cents a week. By 1904, he had completed a series of Hopi paintings and, given the name "Mapli," he was... Read full biography
Born in Portland, Oregon, Louis Akin is associated with Grand Canyon views as well as scenes from Hopi Indian life. He is likely the best known of the Arizona landscape painters in the early 20th century. His family had emigrated from Iowa to Oregon in 1852. As a young man, he worked as a sign painter and then studied in New York City with William Merritt Chase and Frank DuMond. In 1901, "Harper's Weekly" published his illustrations," and in 1903, he was sent by Santa Fe Railway personnel to paint the Hopi Indians in Oraibi, Arizona. For eighteen months, he stayed in the Hopi Pueblo of Oraibi where he rented a room for seventy-five cents a week. By 1904, he had completed a series of Hopi paintings and, given the name "Mapli," he was initiated into their secret society. He also published an article sympathetic to their cultural conflicts with Anglo society and, going to New York f... Read full biography
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Navajo watching field sports, 1903
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New York, California, Alberta. 1880 - 1954
Landscape, wild life painting, sculpture
Arizona, California, Illinois. 1858 - 1949
Indian portrait and still life painting
Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts. 1890 - 1972
Indian genre and landscape painting, illustration
New Mexico, Illinois / Netherland. 1882 - 1963
Portrait painting-often Indian, prints
New Mexico, Maine. 1878 - 1936
Western genre and figure painting, illustration
New York, New Mexico. 1866 - 1943
Landscape, Indian pueblos and figure painting
Colorado, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Connecticut, New Jersey. 1871 - 1910
Landscape, Indian figure and genre painting
New Mexico, Illinois, Wisconsin. 1887 - 1938
Indian-western genre painting, illustration
California, Arizona / Sweden. 1879 - 1934
National park landscape painting, illustration
New Mexico, California. 1868 - 1956
Southwest Indian figure, landscape and genre painting
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana / Hungary. 1859 - 1934
Western panoramic landscape painting, cycloramas, promotional painting
Alaska, Illinois. 1905 - 1960
Landscape-animal, genre, portrait
New York, California / Germany. 1854 - 1924
Frontier-horse genre painting, graphics
New Mexico, California, Arizona, Nevada. 1861 - 1962
Desert landscape and Indian portrait and genre painting
Arizona. 1921 - 2010
Western genre-Indian, sculpture
New York, Maryland, West Virginia / Germany. 1866 - 1955
Frontier genre, landscape and animal paintings
Ohio, California / France. 1847 - 1916
Indians, frontier life, illustrator, pottery decoration
Illinois, New Mexico. 1886 - 1956
Landscape, Indian genre and figure painting
New Mexico, Illinois, Indiana. 1884 - 1949
Indian genre, landscape and portrait painting
California / Sweden. 1879 - 1947
Western, Indian genre, and landscape painting
California. 1872 - 1945
Western genre and horse painting, illustration
New Mexico, Missouri, Kansas. 1874 - 1952
Landscape and genre painting, illustration
California, New Hampshire. 1875 - 1952
Indian portrait, western landscape painting
New Mexico, California. 1897 - 1985
Landscape and Indian painting, graphics
Montana. 1852 - 1919
Indian-frontier-animal, portrait painting
Texas, Montana, Minnesota. Born 1937
Wildlife and mountain landscape painting, bird illustration
Wyoming, New York. 1926 - 2022
Western-subject painting, magazine illustration
Wyoming, Idaho. 1878 - 1932
Western genre-figure, animal, etcher
Maryland. 1810 - 1874
Trapper-Indian genre, portrait, mountain landscapes
California, Arizona. 1875 - 1946
Western landscape painting-skyscapes, Indians
California, Iowa. 1874 - 1939
Western genre, landscape, and nocturne painting