Parker Boyiddle, Jr.

Parker Boyiddle, Jr. is a Kiowa / Wichita / Delaware / Chicksaw painter from Chickasha, Oklahoma, who has played a pivotal role in mid-20th century Native American art.

Background

Boyiddle was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma on 21 July 1947,[1] the son of Thamar and Parker Boyiddle.

Education

Boyiddle was educated at Classen High School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. While at The Institute he studied under famed Indian artists Allan Houser and Fritz Scholder. He also attended Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona. He is a muralist, sculptor and painter, who began his artistic career actively and professionally in 1977.

Career

Boyiddle was commissioned to paint a mural in The Kiowa Tribal Complex in Carnegie, Oklahoma, along with artists Mirac Creepingbear and Sherman Chaddlesone.[1]:80 The mural depicts the history of the Kiowa tribe from its original home in the Yellowstone territory to its establishment in the Great Plains region of the United States.[2]


He is considered one of the more important of Oklahomas traditional artists. He works in mixed media of oil, acrylic, watercolor, bronze and clay. His paintings reflect his environment and his ancestral past of Plains Indians that hunted buffalo and lived as nomads.

References

  1. 1 2 Lester, Patrick D., ed. (1995). The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters (1st ed.). Tulsa, Oklahoma: SIR Publications / University of Oklahama Press. ISBN 978-0806199368.
  2. ↑ "Kiowa Tribal Museum".
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