28 x 36” Oil on Canvas

Sitting Bull had a vision of soldiers falling into camp, which inspired this painting.  Years later, Amos Bad Heart Bull created a beautifully rendered collection of drawings depicting tales from the Battle of the Greasy Grass, or as known by many as the Battle of the Little Bighorn.  During the initial stages of the battle, Major Reno was ordered to attack a Native American settlement on the edges of the Bighorn River, and found much more than he bargained for.  Mounted Native riders came streaming at the Calvary, forcing their retreat and defeat.  The crows in this painting are symbolic those who saw the battle from the sky and foretell of General George Armstrong Custer’s pending annihilation.  

This painting is currently on display at Prairie Edge in Rapid City.  I am in Tucson currently, and will be having an exhibition at the Lionel Rombach Gallery opening on Sept. 23rd.