W. Jackson Rushing

Allan Houser Drawings: The Centennial Exhibition W. Jackson Rushing

Publisher Marketing: After training at The Studio of the Santa Fe Indian School in the 1930s, the Chiricahua Apache artist Allan Houser (1914 1994) had both commercial and critical success as a painter and sculptor. Unlike some artists, he generally was not comfortable working in a painterly style but, believing that charcoals and pastels would enable him to intensify the freshness and spontaneity of his imagery, Houser began to focus on drawing. Houser built a dedicated drawing and design studio in Santa Fe in 1990 and was extremely prolific over the next four years. "Allan Houser Drawings: The Centennial Exhibition" offers a critical examination of Houser s career as a draughtsman, from his early career to the rich body of work he produced late in life. Both the publication and the accompanying exhibition coincided with the centennial of Houser s birth and a national celebration of the artist s legacy." Contributor Bio:  Rushing, W Jackson W. Jackson Rushing III is Eugene B. Adkins Presidential Professor of Art History and Mary Lou Milner Carver Chair in Native American Art at the University of Oklahoma School of Art and Art History. Contributor Bio:  Jerman, Hadley Hadley Jerman is a Ph. D. candidate in art history at the University of Oklahoma.