Charles Shreyvogel was a famous artist in the early nineteen hundreds who painted Native Americans. Charles Schreyvogel was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on January 4th, 1861. His grandfather had immigrated to the United States from Prussia.  Charles Schreyvogel worked as a die sinker for a pipe company when he was a child.  When Charles was older he became an apprentice at a lithograph shop. It was H. August Schwabe noticed Charles's talent for drawing and recommended that he pursue an art career. Since Charles could not afford to pay for classes at the University, he taught himself how to draw and improved his own artwork. He decided to teach classes there instead to earn extra money. While studying at the University Dr. William Redwood Fisher noticed talent in Charles’ work. Charles Schreyvogel asked his brothers to help him fund his education in Europe for art and they agreed to help him. With his brothers' help, Charles Schreyvogel opened an art studio in Hoboken in 1893.  Charles Schreyvogel went out west to fix his asthma problems and he stayed with the Ute tribe in Colorado for five months. While he was there Charles started to paint oil canvases of Native Americans. 

One year later, Charles Schreyvogel got married to Louise Walther on August 24, 1894. They took many Journeys out west. In 1899 he entered “My bunkie” in the National Academy of Design competition and won first place. In 1902 he started to work on “Custer’s Demand;” it was criticized for historical inaccuracies. This painting lead to Charles meeting with Theodore Roosevelt. This painting won the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair bronze prize. The years from 1905 to 1912 were his most productive years. In 1911 he became sick and his health continued to get worse until his death on January 27, 1912. In his art you can see a lot of similarities but it is hard to notice because there are so many details no pays attention to.

In most of his work he has the United States of America Cavalry and Native Americans on horses. In most of his artwork there is a lot of violence between the Native Americans and the White Americans. Native Americans are in war gear or wearing festival material and clothing. His veiw of Native American such a major effect on his art work. We personally think the images are neutral because the paintings show the Native American having a disadvantage and were taken advantage by the white people. So you can say that  these artworks shows the goodness in Native Americans. One of the more respectful pictures is Custer Demand, he shows how they are being so peaceful with each other.

Custer's Demand(1902)

Custer's Demand was conservation painting because seen very inaccurate and was made 1902. This painting is respectful because no is getting harm or begin mocked. In this painting we can see the Native Americans and the whites are trying to negotiate a peace.  The Native Americans are on one side and the whites are on the other side.  You can see the Native Americans are pointing their fingers at the whites and the whites are readying their guns; as if the Native Americans are not always violent but the whites are always willing to spill blood on the ground.

    

Going into action

This painting was made 1912 and it is close up of Native American.This painting shows Native Americans riding very powerfully with all of their gear on; this symbolizes a desire for a peaceful resolution, the desire for a peace treaty, not a hostile resolution.  This can also symbolize that they want to keep their heritage alive by wearing the traditional clothing.

A Sharp Encounter 

This painting shows the Americans are ambushing the Native Americans.  It seems the white Americans are taking advantage of the Native Americans, and the whites are attacking the Native Americans homeland because we can see their homes, the teepees.

The silenced War Whoop

This painting has a Native American out front which symbolizes that they are losing but still strong and have pride and glory.  The Native American out front is holding a tall stick with feathers.  The white Americans are charging down the hill and appear to be outnumbering and overtaking the Native Americans, which is what was actually taking place on a large scale in the country.

Attack on the Herd (Close Call)

In this painting  you can see the Native American guarding himself from the white person with a shield against the Americans.  The American is not surrendering to him he has to point his gun at him.  You can see that the Native American is going the opposite direction of the white person because the white person is ordering him to. As if this represents white people ordering Native Americans to leave their native land to the white people because the whites are being so hostile.

Breaking the Circle

In this painting you can easily see that the Native Americans are chasing the whites off of the Native American land. You can see that the Native American horses are multicolored to symbolize them as one nation under the same cause.  The white men”s horses are all different, which symbolizes the white army which is made up of immigrants, outlaws, and outcasts of society.

On The Skirmish Line

In this painting you can only see white soldiers standing and on the ground, the Native Americans are far in the distance.  It appears that the white people are not as concerned because they have pushed the ‘hostiles’ off of the land.

John Mix Stanley

Blackfeet Playing Cards

John Mix Stanley was born on January 17, 1814 in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Stanley begun painting when he was a young man. In 1842, Stanley traveled to the west to paint Native American life. Because of his travelling, Stanley became a explorer as well as an artist. For almost a decade, John Mix Stanley painted Native subjects and landscapes. On 1865, many of his paintings were destroyed by a fire. Stanley would spent the rest of his life repainting the lost works, organizing exhibitions and reproductions. Of Stanley's many painting, the six our group choose to represent Stanley's interpretations of Native American culture were the following: “Osage Scalp Dance¨,¨Blackfeet Playing Cards¨, "The Deerslayer", "On the Warpath", "Last of their Race", and "Black Knife, an ApacheWarrior".

The Deerslayer

Osage Scalp Dance

In "The Deerslayer", Stanley depicts two natives wearing traditional clothing dragging a recently hunted deer through a rocky landscape. A waterfall and trees can be seen at the distance near the shore of a little spring. A feeling of danger and adventure can be felt because of the furtive, sly actions being doing.

Overall, Stanley is respectful toward Native American culture. The viewer can tell from the mood of the paintings and how he repeatedly tried to show and teach individuals about the Native American culture, even though he possessed beliefs that would be considered racist today, like in his work Osage Scalp Dance, which portrays a fictional encounter of Indian vs Savage. In the one painting “Osage Scalp Dance”, Stanley depicts negative perception of the Native Americans being “savages”, but also shows them being peaceful or ¨civilized¨ by one tribe member with a presidential medal holding back the other natives from hurting the white woman and her child. In "Blackfeet Playing Cards", Blackfeet natives are sitting on a flat rock play a game of cards in the foreground.In the background a camp with tents can be seen on the green landscape besides a river with mountains. This work of Stanley depicts two natives wearing traditional clothing dragging a recently hunted deer through a rocky landscape. A waterfall and trees can be seen at the distance near the shore of a little spring. A feeling of danger and adventure can be felt because of the furtive, sly actions being doing.

On the Warpath

A long line of battle-ready Native Americans are walking or riding horses, they are armed with bows, arrows or spears. They travel through a rocky mountain path, vegetation growing on the sides. An aura of power and serenity seems to flow from the center of the work.

Last of Their Kind

In a symbolic sunset, five natives near the shore of a big body of water sit on the top of a rock with animal skulls at the left side in the shade, everybody doing their own thing. The native in the middle stares with a expression of both sadness and calm to an unidentified point, outside the painting. Further away in the background two adult natives and little child hug together near a white horse.

Henry Farny

American Studies

Mr. Conners and Mr. Rupertus

NAMES: Marquez McCray_Blaze Hutkin

Native Americans on Canvas

Artist: Henry Farny

1. Assemble and assess the body of your artist’s work that deals with Native American themes.  Add more boxes if necessary.

Body of Native American Work

             TITLE   DATE DESCRIPTION

“The Captive”	1885	Native American tribe with a white american pinned down
“Renegade Apaches”	1913	Native Americans behind rocks with guns waiting for cowboys
“Sketch for the Challenge”	1892	Native American on a horse with a gun
“Indian Brave”	1891	Native American holding a gun with the horse and mountains in the background
“The Long Shot”	1891	Native American riding a horse holding a gun

Henry Farny is a french born american painter who moved to the America when he was 6 years old to Warren, Pennsylvania nearby a Seneca Reservation. Most of his work was centered on Native American culture. After he was heavily influenced by Native American lifestyle, his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he started to become interested in art.

Native Americans with guns or muskets, always with horses and feathers i their hair. Also the background scenery is mostly mountains. No, he is not respectful of Native American culture because he often portrays the Native Americans with guns or planning an attack on cowboys or whites.

Henry Farny, a French born American artist, when he was young he moved to a town that bordered a Native American reservation. By Farny living near this reservation it gave him a different perspective then most artist and Americans because he saw Native Americans in his everyday life. These works represent our artists views because he is not respectful but is also not disrespectful because he portrays the Native Americans as violent at times but in their native surroundings.

Charles Bird King's Works.

Charles Bird King was born in 1785 in Rhode Island. For his education to start in the art of  portraits he went to London at the age of twenty in 1805-1812 and studied under Benjamin West at the esteemed Royal Academy but because of the war in 1812 he had to leave the country and come back to America. When McKenney saw how the Native Americans as a race were starting to deplete he had King paint the government pictures so that we could remember them. During this period King created more than 143 paintings in the years of 1822 to 1842. 
Mostly Charles Bird King is a positive artist for the Native Americans because most of his portraits were made on request from Thomas Mckenney, head of the first BIA ( Bureau of Indian Affairs). King had the Indian diplomats come to Washington D.C, where his studio was located. Even though Thomas Mckenney was not Native American he made it known in the papers that he highly respected the Native Americans. From that you can gather that he would pick someone (Charles Bird King) who shared his respect.


AN IOWAY WARRIOR - The warrior in the painting is a native American with a dime like medal, dotted shirt, red robe, blue bandanna with red and yellow stripes, thin feathers out the top, and an silver calumet with red and whits stripes in his hand.





Shaumonekusse - This painting has Shaumonekusse wearing a what looks like talons around his neck, many beaded nickles, many earrings on one ear and he is head piece is red and green with red hair/feathers with two horns sticking from the top.





White Plum- This painting is of a woman, she appears to be trying to lift up her cloths and she has scraps and bruises on her shoulders and neck as if she was being bound by ropes. She is wearing a lot of jewelry which implies that she could be royal in the eyes of her tribe or she married a well off chief. She is also wearing a medallion on her neck.

Crouching Eagle -

The painting is of a Native American man that has no shirt on, but is wearing a white robe and has a black bandanna type hat on his head. He also has and gold chain around his neck. She is also wearing a pendent.

Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees - In this painting there are five chiefs standing together but they are not together. All the chiefs are looking off into the distance towards their tribes. The closest Indian to the viewer has a arrow in his arm. The five chiefs are all wearing face paint which could mean that they all are ready for war. Also the first Indian is wearing a pendent around his neck.

Eagle of Delight, also called Hayne Hudjihini in Chiwere - This painting is of a woman that appears to be wealthy she looks to be wearing a mink or some other type of fur. She is also wearing a lot of beads and she has a dot on her forehead. For being one of King's paintings she is not wearing a medallion around her neck.

Charles Bird King's common images were painting still portraits of Native Americans. His paintings were detailed and bright which made the portraits jump off there canvas. Charles also created most of his works using old panels which added to the life-likeness of his works.

In most of Kings artwork there were medallions on the necks of the Native Americans, and the medallions appeared to have the figurine head of George Washington. King also seems to give his Native American sitters some European style armor or cloths, which at this time could not be obtained by the average Native American.