The Art of Judy Gordon



Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull, Sioux Medicine Man -- 1883
1982

Ink on paper, 8½ in. x 11 in.
Collection of the artist

Judy's comments:
On July 19, 1881, Sitting Bull, surrendered to the U.S.A.
In November, 1982, painted subject from a photograph, to be used in a Wowapi Press chapbook, Wowapi: Anything Written In Any Form, by artist. A butterfly very high-profiled in the man's hat.

First painting was owned by Marquetta Herring, co-owner, Paperbacks Plus Bookstore. Painting, regretfully, was lost in the Gaston Avenue fire in 1993, in Dallas, Texas.

Words written by artist:
The more they learned.
The more they quested,
The lower
Became
The corners
Of
Their mouths.
Sitting Bull, Sioux Medicine Man -- 1883 © 2003, by Judy Nell Gordon. All rights reserved.
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