Red Eagle Mountain
Item
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Title
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Red Eagle Mountain
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Creator
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Neil Parsons
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Artist ID
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47
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Date of Work
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1989
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Description
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Painting depicting a mountain in various shades of muted blues, greens, purples, and browns.
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Category of Media
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Painting/drawing/mixed media on paper
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Media
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media media / collage
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Accession Number
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1994.001
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Location
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display: Lab 2, 2nd floor, office area
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Date Acquired
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1994
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Acquisition Method
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Donation, unrestricted
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Dimensions of Work
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26" x 26"
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Frame Dimensions
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32.25" x 32.25"
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Frame Type
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metal
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Donor or Seller
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Barbara Smith
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Donor ID
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182
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Artist Bio
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Neil Parsons is a Blackfeet Indigenous Art artist who was born in 1938. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts have featured Neil Parsons's work in the past.
"My work is about my inner experiences as a painter, who happens to be of Blackfeet Indian descent," said the artist. "In this context, I find that I have returned full-circle, to a form of pictorial expression combining my training and experience as an abstract expressionist with that of a deeper vision of design making. For years I was inspired by 'action painting' and the need to 'paint like a white man'... but during a recent stay in New York, I was to stumble upon a small unpublished series of folded monoprints by Andy Warhol, which ignited a flame of symmetrical composition not unlike the floral or geometric designs of my native forefathers...."
Sources: https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Neil-Parsons/B2147D8FFDA6BEC4/Biography
https://missoulaartmuseum.pastperfectonline.com/creator/C9049353-5E41-4F56-8C23-186139981370
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Abstract
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"My paintings are about the wind rushing over the mountains and across the plains, of cool crystal waters coursing through the banks of rivers and streams, of distant ridges against the sky, and of wildflowers and sage..."
Source: Evergreen Art Collection Archives
