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Bison (for Zozie)

Colored pencil on paper • 2026

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Centaur (Cadmium)

Oil on Canvas • 36" x 24" • 2024

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Gaan

Mixed media on panel • 16" x 12" • 2024

painting of a figure on a flag

Cincinnatus

Mixed media • 12" x 9" • 2023

painting of a bison falling atop a green field

Falling Bison

Oil on canvas • 36" x 24" • 2023

painting of a figure holding a rifle atop a bison with many legs

Bison Rider

Mixed media on canvas • 17" x 14" • 2023

An abstract portrait of an indian on an American flag

American Indian 2

Oil stick on flag • 12" x 9" • 2023

An abstract portrait of an indian on an American flag

American Indian 1

Oil stick on flag • 12" x 9" • 2023

An abstract portrait of an indian with a feather in his hair

Indian

Oil stick on canvas paper • 12" x 9" • 2023

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Minotaur

Oil on Panel • 12" x 12" • 2022

Painting of a dark figure on a dark horse

Copper Centaur

Oil on Canvas • 16" x 14" • 2022

A painting of a bison on a color field that is cadmium red on top and a warm white on the bottom

Bison

Oil on Canvas • 36" x 24" • 2022

A painting of a black horse on a cadmium green field

Horse

Oil on Panel • 16" x 12" • 2022

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Standing Bison

Oil on Panel • 16" x 12" • 2022

a red silhouette of a figure on a horse from the side

Centaur (Red)

Mixed Media on Panel • 18" x 12" • 2022

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Centaur 5

Watercolor on Yupo • 14" x 11" • 2020

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Sitting Bull

Watercolor on Yupo • 14" x 11" • 2020

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Monument

Watercolor on Yupo • 11" x 14" • 2020

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Shiprock

Watercolor on Yupo • 14" x 11" • 2020

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Crown Dancer

Watercolor on Yupo • 14" x 11" • 2020

pencil drawing of a child asleep with their head turned into a pillow, hair worked in heavy hatching above a barely drawn shoulder and hand

Sleeping Child

Portraits

Graphite and colored pencil on paper • 2020

pencil drawing of a hooded woman holding an infant against her shoulder, both faces close together over densely hatched cloth

Mother and Child

blue colored pencil and graphite drawing of a woman in a soft bonnet turned three-quarters toward the viewer, the face shaded in fine blue hatching

Woman in a Bonnet

pencil drawing of a seated man hunched under a wide-brimmed hat, his face lost in shadow, a pale bowl on the table before him

Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat

pencil drawing of a figure in a feathered headdress and shell breastplate holding a starred banner on a long staff, a small child standing at their side

Standard Bearer

Ceremonial

Graphite and colored pencil on paper • 2020

graphite and colored pencil drawing on cream paper of a dancer in an antlered headdress striding forward with a staff, red and blue marks scattered above the raised hand

Antlered Dancer

pencil drawing of a centaur in a feathered warbonnet standing in profile with a lance held upright, the body built from dense diagonal hatching

Centaur with Lance

Centaur and Monument

Graphite on paper • 2020

pencil drawing of a small dark rider halted on an empty plain before a faceted rock monument floating above the horizon

Rider before the Monument

pencil drawing of a bison inverted in mid-fall, legs splayed upward and the head massed in heavy shadow

Falling Bison

fine-line drawing of a long-haired rider twisting in the saddle with a pistol raised, the horse's head dropping hard to the right

Warrior with Pistol

Riders

Graphite and ink on paper • 2020

fine-line drawing of a rider in a forage cap coming straight at the viewer with a rifle across the saddle, the horse's head lowered

Rider with Rifle

pencil drawing of a horse at full stride with its head thrown back, the rider reduced to a hatched silhouette behind

Charging Horse

faint pencil drawing of a mounted officer standing square to the viewer, the head and shoulders worked up in dark hatching while the horse stays open contour

Cavalry Officer

small pencil drawing of an officer in a bicorne hat mounted on a pale horse, standing on a lightly ruled rectangle of ground

Officer on a Grey

watercolor and pencil study seen from behind of a rider in red between two horses, one pale tan and one dark green-grey, a small pennant flying above

Two Horses and a Rider

Watercolor and pencil on paper • 2020

pencil drawing of an eagle's head in profile above a smaller meadowlark, both worked in fine hatching over open contour, the lower bird annotated MEADOWLARK in the artist's hand

Meadowlark and Eagle

Graphite on paper • 2020

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Copy of a Copy

Mixed Media on Panel • 16" x 12" • 2020

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Centaur 4

Mixed Media on Panel • 16" x 12" • 2020

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Indian

Mixed Media on Panel • 16" x 12" • 2019

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Shiprock (Centaur)

Pastel on Paper • 16" x 12" • 2019

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When TR Shook Your Hand He Meant It (Centaur)

Oil on Yupo • 14" x 11" • 2019

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Centaur

Oil on Canvas • 36" x 24" • 2019

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Centaur

Oil on Yupo Paper • 11" x 11" • 2019

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Comanche 3

Oil on Yupo Paper • 14" x 11" • 2019

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Bigfoot Wounded Knee

Pastel on Paper • 16" x 12" • 2019

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Horse Man 1

Pastel on Paper • 16" x 12" • 2019

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Horse Man 2

Pastel on Paper • 16" x 12" • 2019

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Jim Thorpe

Pastel on Paper • 16" x 12" • 2019

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Shiprock

Pastel on Paper • 16" x 12" • 2019

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America

Oil on Panel • 24" x 24" • 2019

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Wounded Knee

Oil on Canvas • 36" x 24" • 2019

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Comanche (armature)

Oil on Panel • 12" x 12" • 2018

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Comanche (black study)

Oil on Panel • 12" x 12" • 2018

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Buffalo Jump

Oil on Canvas • 48" x 36" • 2018

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Comanche

Oil on Canvas • 16" x 20" • 2018

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Indian Centaur - Intaglio

Aquatint • 5" x 4" • 2018

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Assasination of Crazy Horse

Oil on Canvas • 30" x 40" • 2018

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Code Talker

Oil on Canvas • 48" x 36" • 2018

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Lakota Women

Oil on Canvas • 30" x 40" • 2018

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Indian Centaur

Oil on Canvas • 36" x 24" • 2018

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Prospect Park

Oil on Canvas • 12" x 12" • 2018

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Bandito

Pastel • 9" x 14" • 2017

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LGA 1

Oil on Canvas • 24" x 24" • 2011

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LGA 2

Oil on Panel • 12" x 12" • 2011

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LGA 3

Oil on Panel • 12" x 12" • 2011

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LGA 4

Oil on Panel • 12" x 12" • 2011

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Clouds

Aerosol on Canvas • 48" x 36" • 2007

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