Wind Spirit
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.In Blackbear Bosin’s painting, a Native family on horseback observes a tornado moving across the Plains. They are awed by the power of nature and fear for their safety, and as they watch, they measure the effect of the storm on a herd of buffalo stampeding in the distance. Like painters Oscar Howe and Walter Richard “Dick” West Sr., Bosin pushed the boundaries of tradition. He created a distinctive, highly personal artistic style, placing his figures within the vastness of the Plains landscape.
Artwork Details
- Title: Wind Spirit
- Artist: Francis Blackbear Bosin, Tsate Kongia (Native American, Comanche-Kiowa, Oklahoma, 1921–1980)
- Date: ca. 1955
- Geography: United States, Oklahoma
- Culture: Comanche-Kiowa
- Medium: Watercolor on paper
- Dimensions: 23 × 33 5/8 in. (58.4 × 85.4 cm)
- Classification: Paper-Paintings
- Credit Line: Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Nola Bosin Kimble Estate (1955.9)
- Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing