A Linda Haukaas ledger drawing, "Chase the Art Patron"

Linda Haukaas
Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux)/Puerto Rican, (b. 1957), "Chase the Art Patron," ink and colored pencil on ledger paper, signed upper right, titled upper left.
paper (irregular): height 17in, width 27 3/4in
Provenance
Property from the Estate of Arnold and Lorlee Tenenbaum

See Pearce, Richard, Women and Ledger Art: Four Contemporary Native American Artists, 2013, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, p.44, figure 17, for a similarly titled variation on the theme. "In 2006 Haukaas turned to observation, satire, and social commentary, where comedy ranges from biting caricature to playful humor, particularly in her finely tuned detail. Chase the Art Patron, she says, 'is an observational piece of the people at Indian Market as they parade about in their finery, displaying themselves, their art, and their coup of the day. Much of the display of acquisitions is intended as boasting.'" In that version, "The first two figures in the parade are 'patrons of the arts on a shopping spree; they are dressed Texan style [note the cowboy boots]. And they carry beaded bags and briefcase-sized silver studded leather large purses to hold their credit cards and dance cards. A Texan woman's dance card is always full, as are her credit cards'... Most of what they carry 'is drawn from actual art pieces sold and bought at the market.' Following, or cunningly chasing, the patrons is a 'Lakota courting dandy dressed well to sell his art (women like horses, especially Texan women who are leading the pageant). Competing for art' Haukaas concludes, 'requires the cunning of a hunter and endurance of a warrior.'" Ibid. p.43