Indian Brave by Henry Farny Rifle Horses Native American Indian Warrior 11x18 👀

Description: No Reasonable Offer Refused! Price includes, Shipping, Handling, Insurance & our 100% Money Back Guarantee! ***********************************************************India Brave by Henry Farny (bio below) Approx size: 11 x 18 Inch Open Edition Fine Art Print on Paper This is a new item published by FASGallery and is available in larger sizes on both paper and canvas.Contact Seller for more details. This image is from our collection of Classic Westerns. They are printed one a time to order.***********************************************************About This ImageChief Spotted Tail by Henry FarnySinte GleskaSpotted TailSicangu Oyate Lakota (ca. 1823-1881)Spotted TailSinte Gleska was a Brule Sioux leader who became one of the most important individuals in the Northern Plains.He was born about 1823 along the White River in South Dakota (some accounts say near Fort Laramie, Wyoming). He was the son of a Saone man named Cunka - Tangled Hair - and a Brule woman, Walks with the Pipe.Known as Jumping Buffalo in his youth, the future leader received his new name after a trapper gave him a raccoon.Spotted Tail was not a hereditary chief and gained fame through his integrity and ability. Renowned as a man of his word, he astounded Army officials on one occasion when he and two other Indian males accused of murder walked into Fort Laramie to give themselves up in order to spare the rest of the tribe.During imprisonment, Spotted Tail learned to read and write English. Shortly after being freed, the head chief Little Thunder died. The tribal leaders passed over the hereditary candidate and selected Spotted Tail as chief.Although he favored the Treaty of 1865, believing white settlement was inevitable, he and the other leading chiefs did not sign the document. They were holding out for better terms.Their tactic worked, and in 1868, he signed the more important Treaty at Fort Laramie. In this treaty, the Sioux permitted railroad construction with the assurance they would be given a permanent reservation ... including all of present-day South Dakota.Spotted Tail made several trips to Washington during his lifetime. On each occasion, he learned more of the white man’s customs.When gold was discovered in the Black Hills, Spotted Tail and Red Cloud went to Washington to negotiate the sale of the mineral rights. Before leaving, Spotted Tail visited the land in question to learn the true value of the minerals.He listened carefully to miners and realized the mines were indeed of great value. When negotiations were opened and $6,000,000 was offered to the Indians, Spotted Tail demanded an amount 10 times that for the mineral rights. This sum was unacceptable to the government and no treaty resulted.Instead, the miners were allowed to enter the Black Hills without Army interference. Shortly thereafter, the Sioux found themselves overrun without any recourse of safe warfare.Because Red Cloud was out of favor with the government, Spotted Tail was appointed chief of all the Sioux at Rosebud and Spotted Tail Agencies. He was able to negotiate a peaceful arrangement which resulted in the surrender of his nephew, Crazy Horse, in 1877.But, another force had been at work over several years. Several sub-chiefs - Black Crow, Crow Dog and a few other Brule men - were terribly jealous of Spotted Tail and were plotting to displace him.On August 5, 1881, Sinte Gleska was shot and killed by Crow Dog. Sinte Gleska was returning from a council meeting where he was elected to head for Washington an unprecedented third time.The reasons behind the assassination and death are complex and controversial. Crow Dog was eventually tried for murder and - in a landmark decision by the court - was freed on the grounds that the courts had no jurisdiction over crimes committed on Indian reservation land. However, neither Crow Dog nor Spotted Tail’s son, Little Spotted Tail, were capable of leading the Sioux. The people were left without strong leadership at a critical time in history.Today, Spotted Tail is buried at the Episcopal Cemetery in Rosebud, South Dakota. His gravesite overlooks the Rosebud Agency where the US Government and Brule people interact every day. Sinte Gleska University also stands near as its mission embraces the lofty vision Spotted Tail had for his people. Henry Farny BiographyHenry Francois Farny (1847-1916)Henry Farny was born in Alsace, France, the son of a political refugee who to emigrated to Pennsylvania when Henry was six years old. As a child, he enjoyed a friendly relationship with a nearby band of Senecas, which began his life-long fascination with Native Americans.In 1859 Farny's family moved to Cincinnati where he later took his first job as an apprentice lithographer. By the time he was eighteen, Harper's Weekly has published a two-page view of Cincinnati that Farny had drawn. After briefly working for Harper's in New York, Farny decided he needed more advanced art training. In 1867 he traveled to the Royal Academy in Dusseldorf, Germany where he spent three years studying under Herman Hartzog and Thomas Read, and painting beside John Twachtman and Frank Duveneck.Returning to Cincinnati in 1870, Farny resumed his illustration career working for local publishers as well as Harper's Weekly and Century magazines. Other illustration commissions ranged from such projects as circus posters to McGuffy's Eclectic Readers, the most widely used grade school texts of the 19th century.In 1881 Farny learned that the great Lakota leader, Sitting Bull, had turned himself over to the US military and was being held at the Standing Rock Agency. Hoping to meet Sitting Bull and learn more about the Ghost Dance movement, Farny journeyed up the Missouri River to North Dakota, but arrived after Sitting Bull had been moved to Fort Randall. Nevertheless, Farny was enchanted with what he did find, and used the opportunity to make sketches and collect artifacts for use in his studio paintings back in Cincinnati. From this time on, he devoted much of his time to recording scenes of Plains Indian life.Farny made his next Western trip in 1883 to illustrate a Century magazine article about the completion Northern Pacific Railroad's transcontinental line. Part of the celebration included ceremonies at the new territorial capital at Bismarck where he finally met Sitting Bull who delivered an address through an interpreter. Continuing west on the railroad with a group of dignitaries including Ulysses S.Grant, Farny sketched views of the Crow Reservation at Grey Cliff, Montana Territory which also became illustrations for Century.Subsequent Western projects included views of a trip down the Missouri River from Helena, Montana to Fort Benton, and portraits of Zuni leaders for articles about the Pueblo by the famed anthropologist, Frank Cushing, both for Century magazine. Although Farny drew the Zuni portraits in Washington, D.C. when his subjects were visiting the Smithsonian Institution, he did travel to Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory in 1894 at the invitation of General Nelson Miles to paint the Apaches being interned there. Among his most famous works from this trip is a watercolor sketch of Geronimo, signed by the famous chief.After about 1890, Farny discontinued most illustration work in favor of easel paintings depicting the Plains Indians that he had met, lived with, and studied in the previous decade. Considering his training, it is no surprise that his work falls solidly within the romantic realist tradition of the late 19th century. His paintings-most commonly in gouache and transparent watercolor-are highly detailed representations of Native life free of negative effects of reservation living. Although his images are idealized in this way, they are not overtly romanticized or dramatized like those of most other "Indian Painters" of his and subsequent generations. His light is usually the strong, even light of day, not the exaggerated chiaroscuro effects of firelight and shadow. His poses are candid, not the result of stagecraft. Farny's goal was to preserve the details of a way of life he saw disappearing before his eyes. ***********************************************************

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