Horton Performing Paint

This gallery features reproductions of 61 extant posters drawn from the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, and the Musée du quai Branly in Paris.

The posters were printed in Santa Fe, New Mexico and painted by Native American students enrolled in the Studio School, a fine arts program at the Santa Fe Indian School, in 1935. Two hundred such posters were sent to Paris to advertise an exhibition of 100 student paintings organized by the French artist Paul Coze, Art Peau-rouge d’aujourd’hui (Art of the Redskin Today) at the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro from May 17 to June 23, 1935.

Five extant posters were signed by the artists; the creators of eight additional posters are identified with reasonable certainty based upon the style and subject matter of the paintings.

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Art Exhibition Poster with Painting of American Indian in war bonnet on horseback holding feathered spear

A01 Allan Houser

A1 Allan Houser (Chiricahua Apache, 1914–1994), poster announcing Art Peaux-Rouge d’Aujourd’hui, 1935. Tempera on paper, 20 in. x 13 in. Location unknown. Courtesy of the Musée du quai…

Art Exhibition Poster with Painting of injured Bison with Feathered Spear in its Side

A02 Allan Houser

A2 Allan Houser (Chiricahua Apache, 1914–1994), poster announcing Art Peau-Rouge d’Aujourd’hui, 1935. Tempera on paper, 20 in. x 13 in., Inst-179. Gift of the Toyota Motor Corporation, 1992,…

Art Exhibition Poster with two dancing American Indian figures

A03 Artist Unknown

A3 Artist Unknown, poster announcing Art Peau-Rouge d’Aujourd’hui, 1935. Tempera on paper, 20 in. x 13 in., Inst-180. Gift of the Toyota Motor Corporation, 1992, courtesy of the…

Art Exhibition Poster with Painting of circle with schematic face and horns

A04 Artist Unknown

A4 Artist Unknown, poster announcing Art Peau-Rouge d’Aujourd’hui, 1935. Tempera on paper, 20 in. x 13 in., Inst-181. Gift of the Toyota Motor Corporation, 1992, courtesy of the…

A05 Artist Unknown

A5 Artist Unknown, poster announcing Art Peau-Rouge d’Aujourd’hui, 1935. Tempera on paper, 20 in. x 13 in., Inst-182. Gift of the Toyota Motor Corporation, 1992, courtesy of the…

A06 Artist Unknown

A6 Artist Unknown, poster announcing Art Peau-Rouge d’Aujourd’hui, 1935. Tempera on paper, 20 in. x 13 in., Inst-183. Gift of the Toyota Motor Corporation, 1992, courtesy of the…

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