Benjiman Buffalo, Sr. (1948-1994)
Cheyenne in the Moon
Tsistsistas (Cheyenne)

"From abstraction to realism I am trying to relate my art to free thinking . . . I attempt to create a synthesis of the pure, unexplainable, abstract thought processes that occur in every mind everyday. The feeling that music can create for the soul, so also does reality award . . . us the visual stimuli that gave our people beauty."

Rick Hill. Creativity Is Our Tradition. (Santa Fe, New Mexico:The Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development: 1992).

1991, lithograph on paper
National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center Arthur and Shifra Silberman Collection, acc. 96.27.308

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