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Lunda Hoyle Gill oil on canvas of an American Indian

Lunda Hill paintings,This "Lunda Hoyle Gill" oil on canvas of an American Indian with headdress is titled "Plains Indian New Mexico" by Lunda Hoyle Gill, The original frame measures 22 inches by 26 inches,the painting measures 16 inches by 20 inches.Painted with a palette knife the detail and feeling of this image is captivating. Lunda Hoyle Gill has had two exhibitions at he the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History one in 1976 "The Tribal People of Kenya" the second in 1979 "Alaska's Native People Eskimos,Aleuts and Indians" The Hammer Gallery in New York City held exhibitions of her work in 1978 and 1980.This painting was purchased from the 1978 Hammer Gallery exhibit She also had exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Hermitage Museum ST. Petersburg, Russian. Lunday Hoyle Gill's work has been or is still in the following collections, Senator Henry Bellmon, Senator Dewey Bartlett, President Lyndon B Johnson,Charlton Heston, Burt Reynolds,The Frye Museum,Seattle,Washington,the Genesee Country Museum, Mumford,New York, the Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, various Universities and other private collections throughout the United States,Canada,Mexico and Europe. She won many awards including the Stacey Fellowship. The Christian Science Monitor did and article on her on Tuesday December 21,1976. A book of her Chinese paintings The Han and the Fifty Five Minority Nationalities was published by the University of Hawaii Press and a second book Before the Rainbow Fades,collected her Israeli paintings. She also designed five stamps for the US Postal Service issued from Cody Wyoming August 17 1990. Her subject was Indian Feather headdresses for Assiniboine, Sheyenne, Comanche, Flathead, and Shoshone tribes.

Thank you for your quick reply. I am really shocked at the price. I knew many people here wanted it, but probably figured I didn't know what I had and they wanted to buy it for nothing. I am glad I held on to it.
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- Ann N