Posted on 02/24/2005 10:19:19 PM PST by Fizzie
Churchill Art Piece Called Into Question
by CBS4 News reporter Raj Chohan
Feb 24, 2005 8:03 pm US/Mountain BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) Boulder County resident Duke Prentup has been a fan of native American art for as long as he can remember. That love of art took him to the home of Ward Churchill in the early 1980's, where Prentup bought several pieces of Churchill's art, including a serigraph titled "Winter Attack."
"I have enjoyed them ever since immensely, they're obviously up inside my house," Prentup said.
Last month came a stunning revelation, though, as as Prentup flipped through a 1972 book called The Mystic Warriors of the Plains written and illustrated by the late artist Thomas E. Mails. He found a sketch that was strikingly similar to the Churchill piece.
(Excerpt) See the rest of the article, and photo comparisons of the 2 pieces of art here: http://news4colorado.com/topstories/local_story_055200531.html
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Didn't I tell you somebody would be right along to help find it? :-)
We kick butt here; and the thing that makes me furious is that the damn blogs will steal all this and run with it starting about 7 a.m. today!
I Googled "Little Big Man" images and it was on the first page of results.
I wouldn't know where to begin to know where to look!
I am just a thread starter, not a researcher.......
I emailed Craig Silverman!
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Churchill is in big trouble. Have to get this to News 4 Colorado ASAP!
Is that a channel that is really covering this?
Call NOW!
Do you have the link to Churchill's artwork that he claims to have drawn?
On eBay?
www.grandfathersspirit.com
Noooooo.....I'm late again. Just found it....Ok, who was the original photographer? Who has the copyright?
http://www.grandfathersspirit.com/native/cards.html
It's about i/2 down...
http://www.grandfathersspirit.com/cards/111LittleBigMan.html
Found it
Little Big Man
Sioux, Oglala
Photographed by Charles M. Bell
Copyright 1877
Oglala Sioux Warrior. A fearless and respected
warrior who fought along side of Crazy Horse
against Bear Coat Miles, Little Big Man opposed the
treaty and the commission that wanted to take the
Black Hills from the Sioux. He was later made into
an agency policeman by the whiteman, and some
think that he was partially responsible for the death
of Crazy Horse.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20135&item=7301994112&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20148&item=7302524684&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=360&item=7301790643&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
ROTFLOL!
Now "that" is art.
It would be strange in this topsy-turvy world that the fake art generates higher worth than the originals just because they are fake.
Are we doing what I think we are doing? Find the originals of pictures he has sold and claimed as his own? (Just checking here....it's late in NC)
Yes we are....finding the copyright holder too!
NOTHING can make it past FReepers!!!
Well done, all!
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