Penni Anne Cross, The Quilt Makers, 1988

Description

This artwork titled " The Quilt Makers" 1988 is a color offset lithograph on paper by Crow Indian artist Penni … more This artwork titled " The Quilt Makers" 1988 is a color offset lithograph on paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We- Ches) 1939-2016. It is hand signed, inscribed Artist Proof, dedicated and numbered 2/47 in felt pen by the artist. It also have the printed title. Published by Cross Galley, Inc, Jackson Wyoming, printed by Alden Johnson and Adolfo Amador at Shamrock Press, Inc Salt Lake City, Utha. The image size is 18.5 x 24.75 inches, sheet size is 22.5 x 29 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.

About the artist:
Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross, (Alawa-sta-we-ches) was born in Washington state in 1939. She first studied with her portrait-painter mother, before beginning more formal studies in 1968.
Her work is commercially oriented, sentimentalizing her paintings of Native Americans of the Crow tribe. Cross' Crow name, "Alawa-sta-we-ches," means "Travels the Good Road." The work of Penni Anne Cross is held in numerous private collections nationwide. less