Crow King 'Kangi Yatapi'. As a prisoner of war, Crow King posed for this picture in Barry's studio at Fort Buford, D.T., in the winter of 1881. During the battle of Little Bighorn, Crow King and his band of 80 warriors attacked Custer from the south, allowing Crazy Horse and Gall to encircle the doomed 7th Cavalry. (Harbaugh, P., 1982)
"Gordon Smith was born in 1919 in England. He arrived in Winnipeg at the age of fifteen and first studied art there with Le Moine Fitzgerald. He later moved to Vancouver and graduated from the Vancouver School of Art at the end of the war. He joined staff in 1946 and in 1957 moved to the Fine Art Department of the University of British Columbia. In his work of the fifties he is concerned to recreate an actual experience or mood rather than, like Shadbolt, to create a new multi-leveled reality." (Dennis Reid: A concise History of Canadian Painting. Toronto University Press, 1973. P. 278)
Dimensions
60 X 75 cm
Size Overall
76 X 91 cm
Medium
oil
Condition
The surface is dusty, and the frame has abrasion marks all around its perimeter.
This print was part of an exhibition entitled Double Bind, and was printed at the Manitoba Printmakers Association in 1989, sewn together in 1990 and exhibited after 1991. Double Bind was exhibited in Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Toronto, and Halifax.
Dimensions
196.5 X 144.5 cm
Size Overall
224 X 173 cm
Medium
screen collograph print
Condition
Slight wrinkling and creasing from being folded in storage.
