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Cannon, T. C. (1946 - 1978)

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Cannon, T. C. (1946 - 1978)
<strong>Cannon, T. C. </strong>
(1946 - 1978)

<strong>Waiting for the Bus (Anadarko Princess), 16/125, 1977</strong>

lithograph on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches
signed lower right: <i>T C Cannon numbered lower left: 16/125</i>
printer's chop marks lower left

T. C. Cannon, born in Oklahoma in 1946 to a Caddo-French-Choctaw mother and Kiowa-Scotch-Irish father, chose Kiowa as his identity. Growing up in Oklahoma in a mostly Anglo environment was often difficult. His life was to change forever in 1964, the year he entered the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, where he studied under Fritz Scholder. Cannon flourished at the IAIA and in Santa Fe, which he eventually made his hometown. He engaged in politics, philosophy, art, and the heated debates current in the 1960s. There he shaped what was
to become the standard for American Indian artistic expression. He combined his multicultural
background with multimedia into an integrated vision that we immediately recognize as his own.

One of his most famous images, <i>Waiting for the Bus (Anadarko Princess)</i> shows the past and present, Indian and American dichotomy that was central to Cannon’s artistic expression. The figure’s purse and umbrella, modern accessories of city life, are combined contrastingly
with traditional Plains Indian attire. Anadarko is the name of a small town in Oklahoma not far
from Gracemont, Cannon’s home town. Cannon’s works are in museums including Colorado
Springs Fine Arts Center, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and The Philbrook Museum of Art.—PR


Provenance:
Private Collection, New Mexico

Literature:
<i>T.C. Cannon: Personal Canon, </i>Zaplin Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2003
Joan Frederick, <i>T. C. Cannon: He Stood in the Sun,</i> Northland Publishing, Flagstaff, Arizona 1995, page 166.