Mountain Chief by Terrance Guardipee (Blackfeet), 2012, antique ledger paper, colored pencil, graphite, ink NMAI/Heye Center A Warrior's Story, Honoring Grandpa Blue Bird by Lauren Good Day Giago ...

It’s known as ledger art: the beautiful drawings made by American Plains Indians on notebooks brought westward by white settlers and the military. Today, they are unsettling and controversial ...

Ledger art, muslin drawings and a painted shirt made of deer hide and horsehair are some of the displayed narrative works from the 18th and 19th centuries. ... Bear’s Heart, paper, graphite, ...

Attributed to Eugene Standing Elk (c. 1857–1926), Ledger Drawing (c. 1882), Northern Cheyenne, Central Plains, watercolor, ink and graphite on paper, 5 3/4 x 3 1/8 inches ...

Ledger artist Joe Pulliam sometimes uses old maps for his watercolors. Pulliam likens his art on antique documents to “counting coup,” an Indigenous battle tradition in which the warrior ...

Emma Holland’s artwork will appear on all official promotional materials for the Mayfaire by-the-Lake art festival, to be held May 10-11 in Lakeland.

I don’t let the content on the paper influence the art. I have 10 drawings in the show.” Last Gun grew up watching his father make art, but he never had artistic aspirations of his own.