Native American art | History, Styles, & Facts | Britannica
Nov 7, 2024 · Native American art, the visual art of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Americas, often called American Indians. For a further discussion of the visual art of the Americas produced in the period after European contact, see Latin American art.
Collections | National Museum of the American Indian
The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) has one of the most extensive collections of Native American arts and artifacts in the world—approximately 266,000 catalog records (825,000 items) representing over 12,000 years of history and more than 1,200 indigenous cultures throughout the Americas. Ranging from ancient Paleo-Indian points ...
Native American Artists - National Gallery of Art
Highlights from Our Collection. Emmi Whitehorse, , 2020, mixed media on paper on canvas, William A. Clark Fund, 2022.41.1. Richard Ray Whitman, Robert Franklin, Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Do Indian Artists Go to Santa Fe When They Die?, 1988, color offset lithograph on wove Arches paper, Gift of Funds from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation ...
Indigenous Arts of North America - Denver Art Museum
Features over 18,000 objects by artists from over 250 Indigenous nations, encapsulating multiple artistic traditions from ancient times to the present. Collectively, these artworks comprise one of the strongest and most comprehensive collections of Indigenous art in the world.
Native and Indigenous Art - Smithsonian American Art Museum
May 26, 2023 · SAAM’s collection includes many remarkable artworks that reflect the profound and longstanding contributions of Native and Indigenous artists in the United States. SAAM is committed to collecting, contextualizing, and sharing art by Native makers as critical to American culture and identity.
Object Collections - National Museum of the American Indian
The NMAI has one of the world’s finest collections of Northeast and Southeast Woodlands ethnographic objects, including both objects of aesthetic importance and everyday items collected by anthropologists in George Heye’s employ.
Native American Art - A History and Overview of American Indian Art
Dec 17, 2021 · Native art from the Americas includes Native American sculpture, textiles, basket weaving, Native American paintings, murals, and Native American drawings from North and South America, as well as parts of Siberia, Alaska, and Greenland.
11 Influential Native American Artists | Artsy
Nov 9, 2021 · From art world veterans who have been using their work to advocate for Native rights for decades to a younger generation of artists who are using traditional techniques to address contemporary issues, here is a list of some of the most influential Native American artists living and working today.
Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection
Jul 14, 2023 · Honoring the diversity of Native life, the display reveals complex perspectives on America’s past and the deep significance of these artworks to Native and non-Native communities in the present. The work of more than fifty Indigenous groups is represented, as well as major Native American aesthetic forms: painting, drawing, sculpture ...
Native American Art | 10,000 Years Of Native Art - PEM
We have focused on acquiring modern and contemporary Native art to complement our superlative early works. Our collection now includes hundreds of late 20th- and 21st-century works of Native art, including new media installations, fashion, photography, textiles, paintings and works on paper.