Apsáalooke Feminist #1
Artist
Wendy Red Star
(American, Apsáalooke, born 1981)
Date2016
Mediumpigment print
DimensionsImage: 34 × 41 in. (86.4 × 104.1 cm)
Support: 35 × 42 in. (88.9 × 106.7 cm)
Mat: 35 13/16 × 42 3/4 in. (91 × 108.6 cm)
Support: 35 × 42 in. (88.9 × 106.7 cm)
Mat: 35 13/16 × 42 3/4 in. (91 × 108.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D., 2016
Object number2016.13
DescriptionStanding girl to the left of seated woman on white sofa that runs the width of the composition. Wall behind and floor below are marked with a distorted line pattern. Girl and woman are wearing colorful, patterned traditional clothing. Girl has arms acrossed at chest while woman has right hand on lap and left hand under her left leg. Both look out at camera. Fringed shawls are draped at ends of sofa and a doll is also at the right end. Woman holds a beaded bag with fringe at bottom.eMuseum Notes
Posing
for this picture are the artist and her daughter Beatrice, aged eight. Red Star
says in a 2014 taped interview that she made the images in this series in
response to photographs of Native Americans by Edward Curtis. Choosing to
photograph women, instead of the men he generally photographed, the artist and
her daughter adopted what she considers classic portrait poses. She and her
daughter are dressed in their Crow ceremonial garb (dresses, shawls, footwear)
and brought other objects related to their ancestry into their living room in
Portland, Oregon, for the shoot. Red Star notes that the Crow people are
particularly known for their love of color, which accounts for her making these
such vividly colorful images.
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