Pemmican Maker
Item #8249
Bronze; 8.5" x 9.5" x 7.5"; 34/35. Asa Lynn Powell, born in Tulerosa, New Mexico and raised in Apgar, Montana - the son of a cowboy and a teacher. As a boy he watched Charlie Russell paint at Bull Head Lodge in Apgar. Following in his father's footsteps, he was a working wrangler at 10 years old, and later a cowboy and guide in Glacier National Park. He was often called upon to escort visiting American and European artists to remote areas of the park, and would often sketch and paint with them, receiving art lessons in the process. Apart from this he was largely self-taught, sketching and painting the life that he saw and lived - the cowboy, the Indian, and their horses in the region around Glacier Park. As he developed, the subject matter for much of his art became the Blackfoot Indians of Montana in various historical periods, but primarily in more contemporary times. Speaking of the lean years when it was not fashionable nor economically rewarding to do western art work Ace Powell remarked: "We weren't cowboy artists back in those days, we were just artists painting the west as we new it and had experienced it." |
