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Original Acrylic ''A Good Day'' - Virginia Stroud

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,000.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
Original Acrylic ''A Good Day'' - Virginia Stroud
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Original Acrylic ''A Good Day'' by Virginia Stroud, signed in lower left corner with copyright mark, also signed on back on wooden canvas frame, measures 22'' x 28 5/8'', Stroud was born 1951 and is a Cherokee-Muscogee Creek painter from Oklahoma, she is an enrolled member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, born on 13 March 1951 in Madera, California, her mother died when she was eleven, so Stroud moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma to live with her sister, she sold her first painting at the age of 13, of her work, Stroud says, ''I paint for my people. Art is a way for our culture to survive... perhaps the only wayIn 1969, Stroud served as Miss Cherokee Tribal Princess, she went on to win the title Miss National Congress of American Indians in 1970, and in 1971, she was crowned Miss Indian America XVII, she has also written and illustrated many children's books