American, 1914-1994 Peace Offering Signed Allan Houser and numbered S 7/8 on the base Bronze with a brown and green variegated patina Height: 35 3/4 inches (90.8 cm) In fine condition.
Allan Capron (Haozous) Houser (1914 - 1994) "Hunter's Prayer" Bronze Sculpture. Signed and stamped with foundry mark. Mounted to a wooden plinth. Born on the family farm near in Apache, Oklahoma, Allan Houser became one of the Southwest's most famous and financially successful twentieth-century sculptors, known for his abstract Indian subjects. In his book, Masters of American Sculptors, Donald Martin Reynolds referred to Houser, who was Chiricahua Apache, as the "patriarch of American Indian sculptors. . . .Through his prodigious output and a generation of students and followers, Houser has been a formidable force in shaping contemporary Indian sculpture". (205). In 1993, the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, opened a sculpture garden in his honor. With close ties to Arizona, Houser was the grandson of the chief who served as Geronimo's interpreter and a great nephew of the Apache Chief, Geronimo. Houser had the Apache name of "Haozous", translated in English as 'The Sound of Pulling Roots'. At age 15, in 1929, he left high school to help his father run the farm, but five years later enrolled in the Santa Fe Indian Art School founded by Dorothy Dunn. He said because it was free, it was the only art school an Indian could afford. His family were farmers, and he could only go to school when he wasn't needed at home for farm labor. However, his talent was soon recognized, and the first year of his enrollment he was named the school's outstanding artist. He also studied mural painting with Olaf Nordmark at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and he began his art career as a muralist and painter and then focused on stone and wood carving and sculpting in steel and bronze. He worked in Santa Fe from 1936 to 1938, the only Indian specializing in sculpture, and he also painted murals in Washington D.C for the Department of the Interior; Fort Sill, Arkansas; and Riverside, California. As a painter, he did the official portrait of Stuart Udall, Secretary of the Interior and Apache Chief Geronimo for the Arizona State Capitol Building in Phoenix. During World War II, he was a factory hand and ditch digger in California. In 1948, he won a scholarship to the Haskell Institute in Kansas, followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship. There he did his first large sculpture, Comrades in Mourning. Carved from marble, it is eight-feet tall and weighs four and a half tons and remains at the Institute. From 1951 to 1975, he taught art in Indian Schools, and also served as instructor at the Institute of American Arts. From 1962, he lived in Santa Fe from where his work was collected all over the United States. The Phoenician Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, has one of the largest collections of his sculptures. Artist: Allan Houser Title: "Hunter's Prayer" 1980 Medium: Bronze Sculpture Circa/Year: 1980 Signature Type: Signed Signature Location: Lower edge Edition: 5 of 20 Approx. Net Weight: 12 lbs. Keywords: Native American, Indian Artwork, Art; Ref: BD1819
Allan Capron (Haozous) Houser (1914 - 1994) "Listening To The Rain" Bronze Sculpture. In 1992, Allan Houser was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President George Bush and became the first Native American to receive this country's highest art award. Houser won nearly every prestigious art award there is, including the American Indian Resources Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award and France's Palmes d'Academique. Houser's work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Royal Collection, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. Artist: Allan Houser Title: "Listening To The Rain" Medium: Bronze Sculpture Circa/Year: 1990 Signature Type: Signed Signature Location: base Edition: 7/12 Approx. Net Weight: 21 lbs Keywords: Native American, Indian Artwork, Art; Ref: BD2024
Allan Capron (Haozous) Houser (1914 - 1994) "One More Song" Bronze Sculpture. In 1992, Allan Houser was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President George Bush and became the first Native American to receive this country's highest art award. Houser won nearly every prestigious art award there is, including the American Indian Resources Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award and France's Palmes d'Academique. Houser's work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Royal Collection, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. Artist: Allan Houser Title: "One More Song" Medium: Bronze Sculpture Circa/Year: 1983 Signature Type: Signed Signature Location: base Edition: 32/100 Keywords: Native American, Indian Artwork, Art; Ref: BD2024
Allan Capron (Haozous) Houser (1914 - 1994) "Pow Wow Singers" Bronze Sculpture. In 1992, Allan Houser was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President George Bush and became the first Native American to receive this country's highest art award. Houser won nearly every prestigious art award there is, including the American Indian Resources Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award and France's Palmes d'Academique. Houser's work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Royal Collection, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. Artist: Allan Houser Title: "Pow Wow Singers" Medium: Bronze Sculpture Circa/Year: 1980 Signature Type: Signed Signature Location: base Edition: 1/12 Approx. Net Weight: 41 lbs Keywords: Native American, Indian Artwork, Art; Ref: BD1819
Allan Capron (Haozous) Houser (1914 - 1994) "After The Dance" Bronze Sculpture. In 1992, Allan Houser was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President George Bush and became the first Native American to receive this country's highest art award. Houser won nearly every prestigious art award there is, including the American Indian Resources Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award and France's Palmes d'Academique. Houser's work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Royal Collection, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. Artist: Allan Houser Title: "After The Dance" Medium: Bronze Sculpture Circa/Year: 1979 Signature Type: Signed Signature Location: base Edition: 2/20 Approx. Net Weight: 21 lbs Keywords: Native American, Indian Artwork, Art; Ref: BD1819
Allan Houser (Chiricahua Apache, 1914-1994) Thinking of Him, edition 1/10 bronze signed Allan Houser, numbered, and bearing foundry mark (verso) height 20 x width 17 x depth 11 inches
Allan Houser (New Mexico/ California, 1914-1994) Chant of the Rio Grande, 1987 Patinated bronze 29" x 30" x 15" Edition of 12 (numbered 12/ 12) Chant of the Rio Grande depicts three Apache singers chanting in unison to the beat of their drums. Houser's modernist style reverently represents the figures lost in song, their eyes closed, mouths wide, hands falling to the next drum beat. The substantial scale of the sculpture and the skillful portrayal of the countenance give these singers' voices a resounding weight that the viewer can't help but hear. Allan Houser was a Chiricahua Apache artist, born Allan Capron Haozous. His parents were among those forcibly removed from their homes which bordered along the Rio Grande, incarcerated following Geronimo's raids (Houser's father was later Geronimo's translator), eventually relocated to Oklahoma. Houser moved from Oklahoma to Santa Fe in 1934 to pursue artistic studies with Dorothy Dunn. He began his career as an artist in 1939, and he quickly received several promising commissions, but World War II altered his professional opportunities, and he moved with his family to Los Angeles for work. Houser was moved by the modernist sculptors he encountered in California, artists including Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Constantin Brancusi, and Barbara Hepworth inspiring a growth in Houser's own style. Houser's modernist sensibilities joined with his cultural heritage and experience to create works wholly unique within the world of contemporary art. This style had fully matured by the late 1940s, when he sculpted one of his masterpieces Comrade in Mourning, commissioned by the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, KS. Though his themes and subjects remained traditional throughout his life, his desire was for his work to be recognized and accepted among his contemporary peers, free from the boundaries of the Indian Art designation. Today, Houser's art can be found in museums and collections around the world, including the National Portrait Gallery, the British Royal Collection, and the Japanese Royal Collection. Upon taking office, President Biden selected his sculpture Swift Messenger to decorate the Oval Office. In 2018, Houser was one of 12 inaugural inductees to the new National Native American Hall of Fame.
Two Native Americans lithographs: Jerome Richard Tiger (Apache, 1914 - 1994), Observing the Enemy, 1967, edition 376/1500, and Allan Houser (Creek-Seminole, 1941 - 1967), Apache Fire Dancer, 1992. Biography from the Archives of askART: Jerome Tiger was a full blood Creek-Seminole, born in 1941 in Oklahoma. He grew up on the campgrounds that surrounded his grandfather's Indian Baptist church near the sleepy town of Eufaula. Research for many of his paintings began when he was still a child as he traveled with his maternal grandfather, Coleman Lewis, a Baptist Missionary. Coleman traveled throughout Indian Country and on the long rides through the backwoods to churches, and Coleman taught his grandson the history of the Creek people in his native Creek language. In Enfaula and, later, in Muskogee, Tiger attended public schools, learned English, and became familiar with such marvels of white culture as running water, indoor toilets, and telephones. He was a high school dropout, a street and ring fighter of exceptional ability, and a laborer. He married and had three children. And he died in 1967, at the age of twenty-six, of a gunshot wound to the head. Tiger's legacy was his paintings: a body of work of exquisite beauty that revolutionized American Indian art. The success and genius of Tiger's art can be attributed to what was called the Tiger style--a unique combination of spiritual vision, humane understanding, and technical virtuosity. In subject matter and composition, his art was traditional. In every other respect, it was a radical departure from classical Indian art. When Tiger began painting in the 1960's, few, if any, artists could make a living in Indian art. With some formal training at the Cooper School of Art in Cleveland, against all odds, he committed himself to Indian art, and from 1962 until 1967, produced hundreds of paintings that from the outset received the acclaim of critics, won awards, and brought him success and recognition. The average Indian art buyer of the 1960's was unduly critical, ready to find fault with the quality of a piece of work or the authenticity of its details. To be popular with such an audience, not only did Tiger have to be technically competent but inventive and prolific. Tiger's uncanny ability to draw virtually anything after only a momentary glance has led critics to refer to him as the Rembrandt or Goya of Indian art. This is quite a lofty comparison since Tiger had never seen the work of the masters with whom he was compared. But characteristic of all great art, Tiger's work had universal appeal. Its beauty and deep spirituality spoke to people of all races, not just Native Americans. Since his death, Tiger's style has had a tremendous influence on the Indian artists that have succeeded him. One art critic commented--"Wherever there are Indian paintings today, Tiger's influence can be felt." With almost unanimous agreement, Native American artists credit Jerome Tiger with being the major influence in the development of contemporary Indian art. Tiger was an artist's artist. Sources: Submitted June 2004 from the Ashworth Collection of Western and Native American Art in Fort Smith, AR. Material for this biography was obtained from the web site www.jerometigerart.com and http://www.jerometigerart.com Biography from the Archives of askART: Born on the family farm near in Apache, Oklahoma, Allan Houser became one of the Southwest's most famous and financially successful twentieth-century sculptors, known for his abstract Indian subjects. In his book, Masters of American Sculptors, Donald Martin Reynolds referred to Houser, who was Chiricahua Apache, as the "patriarch of American Indian sculptors. . . .Through his prodigious output and a generation of students and followers, Houser has been a formidable force in shaping contemporary Indian sculpture". (205). In 1993, the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, opened a sculpture garden in his honor. With close ties to Arizona, Houser was the grandson of the chief who served as Geronimo's interpreter and a great nephew of the Apache Chief, Geronimo. Houser had the Apache name of "Haozous", translated in English as 'The Sound of Pulling Roots'. At age 15, in 1929, he left high school to help his father run the farm, but five years later enrolled in the Santa Fe Indian Art School founded by Dorothy Dunn. He said because it was free, it was the only art school an Indian could afford. His family were farmers, and he could only go to school when he wasn't needed at home for farm labor. However, his talent was soon recognized, and the first year of his enrollment he was named the school's outstanding artist. He also studied mural painting with Olaf Nordmark at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and he began his art career as a muralist and painter and then focused on stone and wood carving and sculpting in steel and bronze. He worked in Santa Fe from 1936 to 1938, the only Indian specializing in sculpture, and he also painted murals in Washington D.C for the Department of the Interior; Fort Sill, Arkansas; and Riverside, California. As a painter, he did the official portrait of Stuart Udall, Secretary of the Interior and Apache Chief Geronimo for the Arizona State Capitol Building in Phoenix. During World War II, he was a factory hand and ditch digger in California. In 1948, he won a scholarship to the Haskell Institute in Kansas, followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship. There he did his first large sculpture, Comrades in Mourning. Carved from marble, it is eight-feet tall and weighs four and a half tons and remains at the Institute. From 1951 to 1975, he taught art in Indian Schools, and also served as instructor at the Institute of American Arts. From 1962, he lived in Santa Fe from where his work was collected all over the United States. The Phoenician Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, has one of the largest collections of his sculpture. Source: Peggy and Harold Samuels, Contemporary Western Artists and The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West Donald Martin Reynolds, Masters of American Sculpture Patrick Lester, The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters
Title: Allan Houser (1914-1994), Sheltered Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 5 1/4 x 3 Framed Dimensions: 16 1/2 x 5 3/8 x 4 3/8 Signature: inscribed: Allan Houser 6/20 S
Featured in this lot is this 1993 Allan Houser Museum of New Mexico signed advertisement. The advertisement shows a wonderfully and professionally6 crafted lithograph construction framed in a metal frame and shows a trio of bronze woman from the collection of work by Allan Houser and reads as follows: Detail, Mountain Echoes 1986 Allan Houser, Bronze - Allan Houser - A Life in Art - A touring organized by the Museum of New Mexico. The poster is signed by ALlan Houser for Barbara and Virgil in 1993. The condition of this of this art gallery advertisement is good with no obvious signs of damage and shows good overall condition. The measurements of this framed gallery advertisement is 28 1/8" x 21 3/4" and the visible artwork measures 23 3/4" x 17 3/4".
Allan Houser Chiricahua Apache, (1914-1994), a bronze sculpture, woman in blanket with fringed bag, artist's proof, signed and inscribed on the base. height 14in, width 4 7/8in
Allan Houser Chiricahua Apache, (1914-1994), '49,' bronze with brown patina, edition 19 of 20, signed and numbered on the lower back of one figure. height 12 3/8in, diameter 12in
Allan Houser (Native American, 1914-1994) The Walk, 1992 bronze with brown patina on wooden base incised with signature and date, and stamp numbered 23/30 to bottom of sculpture verso, with the foundry mark height: 5 in. (12.7cm) width: 2 ½ in. (6.4cm) depth: 2 in. (5.1cm) base: 1 x 3 ½ x 4 in. (2.5 x 8.9 x 10.2cm)
Allan Houser (American/New Mexico, 1914-1994), "Gathering Clouds", 1991, bronze, signed, dated and numbered "25/25" on back, "Altermann Galleries and Auctioneers, Santa Fe, NM" label with artist and title on underside, h. 8 1/4 in., w. 5 1/2 in., d. 3 3/4 in., marble base, overall h. 9 1/4 in.
Allan Houser "Buffalo Dancer of the Rio Grande Pueblo" Bronze Bolo Tie 1994 Prix de West Commemorative. Approx. Net Weight: 160.9gr Keywords: Southwestern, Jewelry; Ref: BD3054
Allan Houser 1914-1994 After the Dance patinated bronze, mounted to wooden plinth 1979; ed. 13/20; signed, dated, numbered and with foundry mark "S.F." or "S.G.",
Title is Apache Lovers. 7 5/8" by 6 1/2" by 6". Allan Capron (Haozous) Houser (1914 - 1994) was active/lived in New Mexico, California. Allan Houser is known for Indian figure sculpture, painting. Born on the family farm near in Apache, Oklahoma, Allan Houser became one of the Southwest's most famous and financially successful twentieth-century sculptors, known for his abstract Indian subjects. In his book, Masters of American Sculptors, Donald Martin Reynolds referred to Houser, who was Chiricahua Apache, as the "patriarch of American Indian sculptors. . . .Through his prodigious output and a generation of students and followers, Houser has been a formidable force in shaping contemporary Indian sculpture". (205). In 1993, the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, opened a sculpture garden in his honor. With close ties to Arizona, Houser was the grandson of the chief who served as Geronimo's interpreter and a great nephew of the Apache Chief, Geronimo. Houser had the Apache name of "Haozous", translated in English as 'The Sound of Pulling Roots'. At age 15, in 1929, he left high school to help his father run the farm, but five years later enrolled in the Santa Fe Indian Art School founded by Dorothy Dunn. He said because it was free, it was the only art school an Indian could afford. His family were farmers, and he could only go to school when he wasn't needed at home for farm labor. However, his talent was soon recognized, and the first year of his enrollment he was named the school's outstanding artist. He also studied mural painting with Olaf Nordmark at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and he began his art career as a muralist and painter and then focused on stone and wood carving and sculpting in steel and bronze. He worked in Santa Fe from 1936 to 1938, the only Indian specializing in sculpture, and he also painted murals in Washington D.C for the Department of the Interior; Fort Sill, Arkansas; and Riverside, California. As a painter, he did the official portrait of Stuart Udall, Secretary of the Interior and Apache Chief Geronimo for the Arizona State Capitol Building in Phoenix. During World War II, he was a factory hand and ditch digger in California. In 1948, he won a scholarship to the Haskell Institute in Kansas, followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship. There he did his first large sculpture, Comrades in Mourning. Carved from marble, it is eight-feet tall and weighs four and a half tons and remains at the Institute. From 1951 to 1975, he taught art in Indian Schools, and also served as instructor at the Institute of American Arts. From 1962, he lived in Santa Fe from where his work was collected all over the United States. The Phoenician Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, has one of the largest collections of his sculpture.
Title: Stalking Antelope Dimensions: 11 3/8 x 16 3/8 Framed Dimensions: 21 7/8 x 25 7/8 x 1 1/8 Signature: signed and dated lower right: Houser -39 verso: titled and signed
Allan Houser (Chiricahua Apache, 1914-1994) Forty-Nine, Drum Circle, edition 10/20 bronze signed Allan Houser and numbered (base) height 12 3/4 x diameter 12 inches
Allan Houser (Chiricahua Apache, 1914-1994) Horse and Rider, edition 2/20, 1985 bronze signed Allan Houser, numbered and dated (base) height 16 x width 22 x depth 6 inches
Allan Houser (Chiricahua Apache, 1914-1994) Plains Eagle Dancer, edition 13/20, 1983 bronze signed Allan Houser, titled, numbered and dated (base) height 10 x width 9 x depth 8 inches From the Collection of Dr. Martin Gingras, Rochester, New York
Allan Houser (Chiricahua Apache, 1914-1994) Maiden and Child, edition 23/25, 1991 bronze signed Allan Houser, numbered and dated (verso) height 9 x width 6 x depth 5 inches
Allan Houser (Chiricahua Apache, 1914-1994) Apache Lovers, edition 16/20, 1980 bronze signed Allan Houser, numbered and dated (base) height 6 x width 5 1/2 x depth 6 inches
Allan Houser (Chiricahua Apache, 1914-1994) Mother and Child, edition 60/100, 1994 bronze signed Allan Houser Haozous, numbered and dated (base) height 2 1/2 x width 2 1/8 x depth 1 3/4 inches From the Collection of Dr. Martin Gingras, Rochester, New York
Allan Capron (Haozous) Houser (1914 - 1994) "Night Watch" Bronze Sculpture. Inscribed along edge Allan Houser 80 / 8/20. In 1992, Allan Houser was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President George Bush and became the first Native American to receive this country's highest art award. Houser won nearly every prestigious art award there is, including the American Indian Resources Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award and France's Palmes d'Academique. Houser's work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Royal Collection, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. Artist: Allan Houser Title: "Night Watch" Medium: Bronze Sculpture Circa/Year: 1980 Signature Type: Signed Signature Location: Reverse Edition: 8/20 Approx. Net Weight: 11 lbs. Keywords: Native American, Indian Artwork, Art; Ref: BD2023
Bronze Relief Sculpture, Allan Houser (American, 1914 - 1994) Buffalo Dancers 15in. x 17in. (38 x 42cm) Signed dated '84 8/20 Allan Capron Houser or Haozous (1914-1994) was a Chiricahua Apache sculptor, painter, and book illustrator born in Oklahoma. He was one of the most renowned Native American painters and Modernist sculptors of the 20th century
Allan Houser 1914-1994 After the Dance patinated bronze, mounted to wooden plinth 1979; ed. 16/20; signed, dated, numbered and with foundry mark to lower edge
Apache Man, Bust ca 1991 - measures 11.5" x 7.5" x 9" The Digital still (not included) shows Houser working on this piece in clay. No edition number, so it may be a single casting, signed verso at the base 1991. There may be a #8 as well. Houser was the first Native Artist to highlight the visage of native peoples in marble and bronze in large scale like European heroes.
