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Part of The Massacre at Wounded Knee pamphlet, 1971

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woodcut prints are now permanently displayed in
the Janusz Korczak State Children's Home in
Warsaw, Poland. Carter was interviewed on the
Voice of America overseas radio to Poland, concerning these prints.
His most recent work is a series of 12 woodcut prints dealing with the massacre of Sioux
Indians by the U.S. Army at Wounded Knee,
South Dakota in 1890.
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BRUCE CARTER'S WOUNDED KNEE SERIES CAPTURES
THE TRADGEDY OF AN INDIAN MASSACRE
" ... Indians camped for miles around could hear the
distant clatter of guns at Wounded Knee. Long
•f t 2rward they likened the shooting to the long,
ont inuous tearing of a blanket .... Something
horrendous wa s taking place over on Wounded Knee
Creek." At this remote spot near the S.Dakota
Badlands on t he cold winter morning of Dec.29,1890,
the "tearing of the blanket" continued for two
murderous hours and brou ght death to 153 Sioux
warriors , women and children, including their
powerful chi ef , Big Foot, and 25 U.S. Cavalry
troops.
The "tearing of the blanket" was a savage,
close-quarter crossfire and counterfire which
erupted while the troops, who had encircled a
band of surrendering Sioux, were conducting a
weapons search.
Described by one author as "a regrettable,
tragic accident of war that neither side intended",
Wounded Knee might well stand for all the similar
accidents kindled by the fanaticism of war throughout history.
Carter writes further, "I've realized since
I last wrote to you, that My Lai triggered this
whole series. It was an echo of Wounded Knee,
only 80 years ago, and the common denominator
of the senseless savagery of man and the myth
of American righteousness exploded within me.
Out came the images!"
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THE MASSACRE AT
WOUNDED KNEE
Twelve Woodcuts by Bruce Carter
State Capital Museum
24 September - 31 October
The Evergreen State
College
1-15 November 1971
Olympia, Washington

THE PRINTER

THE PRINTS
By
BRUCE CARTER
AMERICAN WOODCUTTER
1.

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Fallen Eagle 11

$45.

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Broken Promise 11

$45.

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The Scavengers 11

$65.

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The

$60.

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Ghost Dancer 11

6.

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They Ca 11 ed Us Brothers, and We Be 1 i eved Them'' $7 5.

7.

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American Enculturation 11

$65.

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Turkey Shoot 11

$65.

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The Snow Sparrow 11

$75.

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Flight 11

$75.

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Cpl. Paul H. Weinert, Christian Hero 11

$70.

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Subm i s s i on 11

$70.

Missionary~~

$55.
Bruce Carter, currently an Associate Professor
in the Dept. of Painting and Sculpture of Carnegie
~ ellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., has had a
wide and varied experience in the arts. As a
printmaker, his woodcuts and lithographs are
represented in both American and European museum
and private collections.
Mr. Carter has exhibited his work in twenty
national and regional, juried print exhibitions.
He has held twenty one one man exhibitions of hi s
work which include exhibitions in Gallery 16,
, Reykjavik, Iceland and the Kunstner Forhundet,
Oslo, Norway.
As a muralist, he has completed commission
in both painted and glass mosaic murals. His work
is in the Narvik City Hall, Narvik, Norway , the
· Kiruna City Hall, Kiruna, Sweden, the Nordlandsbanken, Leknes, Lofoten Islands, Norway, the
Parkhallene, Narvik, Norway and the National War
Museum, Gettysburg, Pa.

Requests for purchase of prints are best directed
to the artist BRUCE CARTER, 2618 Broad Street, Bethel Park,Pa.
15102

In 1969, Bruce Carter completed a series of
woodcuts, dedicated to the memory of Janusz Korczak,
a Polish doctor and teacher, who was killed with
200 of his orphaned students in Treblinka. Tho