Curator’s Tour of Peripheral Visions Exhibition

Rhéanne Chartrand, curator of Indigenous art at the museum of art will lead a walking, guided tour of the exhibition “Peripheral Vision(s)” which she co-curated. This exhibition sparks a visual dialogue between ledger drawings by 19th century Northern Plains warrior-artists and lithographic prints produced a century later by Leonard Baskin (Jewish-American, 1922-2000) and Fritz Scholder (Luiseño/American, 1937-2005) to generate a new critical analysis on history, the politics of representation, image-making and the overall intent of portraiture. It draws together nearly 50 works of art from institutions across North America.

The exhibition and related programming is generously supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Image credits: Iron Cloud / Mahpiyamaza, Iron Cloud performing Counting Coup or Scalp Dance, c. 1876, pencil and crayon on paper, Simcoe County Museum; Leonard Baskin, White Man Runs Him – Crow Scout, 1993, lithograph on paper. Gift of Rabbi Bernard & Mrs. Marjorie Baskin, 1996. McMaster Museum of Art. © The Estate of Leonard Baskin; Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne, New York; Fritz Scholder, Portrait of an American #2, 1973, lithograph on paper. Gift of Anthony and Rene Donaldson, Harwood Museum of Art, The University of New Mexico © Estate of Fritz Scholder