LG FRED BEAVER ~ FLORIDA SEMINOLE INDIAN TEMPERA 1958
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Just one of inkFrog's Creations Description: FRED BEAVER ~ FLORIDA SEMINOLE TEMPERA 1958 Very Large & important museum quality original tempera painting by famed Seminole-Creek Indian artist Fred Beaver ( 1911-1980 ). Titled: "Florida Seminoles, drying alligator hide" (see picture on back) Image size: 21" x 28" + 5" mat board all around Exhibited 1958 at the Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa Oklahoma, in the Woodland section. (see label from back) The condition of the piece is excellent. Offered directly from the estate of a local Rancho Santa Fe & Oklahoma collector. Bought either directly from the artist or a gallery in the 1960s and stored in a portfolio, unframed, as shown. The colors are true, even and un-faded, as painted by the artist. Fred Beaver ( July,2 1911 – August 18, 1980) was a prominent Muskogee Creek-Seminole painter and muralist from OklahomaBorn in Eufaula, Oklahoma, Fred Beaver was the son of Willie Beaver and Annie Johnson. His paternal grandfather was Itshaus Micco, subchief of Okfuskee town group in Alabama, who moved his people to Oklahoma where the town of Eufaula now stands. In 1931, Beaver graduated from Eufaula High School where he was an All-State football and basketball player. He attended Bacone College and in 1935, graduated from Haskell Business College. He became a clerk and interpreter under
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