Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection

By Joyce M. Szabo, Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico. Foreword by Steven L. Grafe, Curator of American Indian Art at the National Cowboy Museum.

This is volume 4 in The Western Legacies Series.

During the 1870s, Cheyenne and Kiowa prisoners of war at Fort Marion, Florida, graphically recorded their responses to incarceration in drawings that conveyed not only the present reality of imprisonment but also nostalgic memories of home. Now, a leading authority on American Indian drawings and paintings examines an important collection of these drawings to reveal how art blossomed at Fort Marion.
Although other books have considered the Fort Marion artists, this is the first to examine their works in such analytical and comparative detail. Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection captures a unique visual form of Native expression.

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