"Beardy's brilliant application of color is drawn from his dreams. The geography of his paintings is a blend of the visible universe and the invisible powers that animate the visible, and give it life and meaning. The time in which the works are set is mythological time, before history. The paintings are not separate from the major themes of Jackson's life and in fact parallel his own growth and spiritual development. They dealt not only with the mysteries of matter but also with those of creation and life; they sought to harmonize the human individual with the universe, Jackson's alchemy is performed between two socio-political worlds. He struggled to be effective and to balance his own life between two powerful unseen Manitou forces." (Colleen Cutschall, p. 22)
Red Horse 'Xunktanka Stanewe'. During the spring of 1876, Red Horse moved his band from the region of the Cheyenne River traveling through the Rosebud Valley and met with a large contingent of Sioux assembling on the west bank of the Little Bighorn river. As a head chief within the council lodge of the largest recorded Sioux camp, Red Horse fought both Custer and Reno. In 1881 at the Cheyenne River Agency, S.D., Red Horse created 41 ledger drawings illustrating his part in the famed battle. His story was published by the Bureau of American Ethnology in their Tenth Annual Report. (Harbaugh, P., 1982)
Douglas Vincent Reiley was born in Amherst, N. S. He got his education in New Brunswick, London (England), and other places. Reiley worked both in two and three-dimensional media. He held various positions on Art Educational boards in Nova Scotia and Manitoba. For a period of time the artist worked as an art lecturer in Brandon. He spent 20 years at BU offering visual art courses. Reiley died in 1987. (1996 inventory)
Dimensions
76 X 50.5 cm
Size Overall
84 X 59 cm
Medium
oil
Condition
Bulging of surface - canvas loosely stretched. Mitre joints splitting in upper corners (TL and TR). Stretcher semi-detached from the frame in BL corner. Paint loss in area 22cm TL X 18.5cm L (c.. 0.5cm in diameter). Cracking of paint in the yellow area of the drum
