The Art of Judy Gordon

Washakie

Washakie
1982
Acrylic on canvas, 10" x 12"
Collection of the artist

Judy says:
"WASHAKIE" -- a peace chief having dealt with the white incursion and warring; handled it a certain way. His face came out strongly in my painting.

Despite an earlier reputation as a fighter in the Indian wars against the white incursion, in the 1850s, he actually ordered his tribe to help the whites passing through his territory in Wyoming. He became one of the Indian chiefs as a partisan for peace. Photo I used to paint this Shoshoni leader came from the Time Life Books®-- this one being: The Indians.

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