Three Linda Haukaas drawings: "Dance at Okreek / Oyatee Waste...

Linda Haukaas
Sicangu Lakota (Rosebud Sioux) / Puerto Rican, (b. 1957), three works, including: "Dance at Okreek / Oyatee Waste Wiyan," "Sicangu Lakota Courtship / He Brings Many Horses," "and "Lakota Women;" each colored pencil on vintage ledger paper framed under Plexiglas, each signed and titled.
each: paper: height 8 1/4in, width 13 3/4in
Provenance
Property from the Estate of Arnold and Lorlee Tenenbaum

For a thorough discussion of Linda Haukaas' artwork, see Pearce, Richard, Women and Ledger Art: Four Contemporary Native American Artists, 2013, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, pp.29-51. "In her wide range of drawings, Linda Haukaas recovers the history and represents the contemporary lives of Lakota Sicangu women and girls. Some of her most powerful drawings are manly hearted women and strong women, who sometimes became warriors. But equally important are those of women who played the traditional roles of mothers, wives, and sisters - who were responsible for nurturing life, maintaining basic traditions, and preserving the flexibility that has enabled them to remain vital. Indeed, due to the sensuality of her colors, rhythms, details, and sometimes subject matter, her drawings are a celebration of tribal relationships and life." Ibid, p.51.