“The Year the Stars Fell” 11 x 30” Watercolor and Gouache on Paper The winter of 1833 – 34 was known to many Plains Indian Tribes as “The Year the Stars Fell”. That year, the Leonid meteor storm was recorded in numerous Indian calendars, called winter counts. A winter count was kept by various tribes, as a pictorial reminder of …
Doing several paintings to hang in the new Spearfish Crow Peak Brewery, I explored Native American legends regarding the Crow and the Sioux Indians. Enemies in earlier days, there are many winter count and ledger art records about battles between the two tribes. Paintings I did for the brewery explored the legend of how the local landmark, Crow Peak, got …
This painting is a detail from a painting inspired by a winter count by Baptiste Good. This winter count records the Sioux history as passed forward through narrative drawings painted on an animal hide. This record was passed down from generation to generation, along with the story that each symbol represented. The count recorded from winter to winter. As this …