Kiowa/Comanche Artist George Geionety Painting "Maiden with Pink Fan"

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Kiowa/Comanche Artist George Geionety Painting "Maiden with Pink Fan" Size 15" x 20" Painted directly onto light blue mat boards. Some wear due to age, handling and storage. Easily repaired.
Born in a tipi near Cache, Oklahoma on October 23 1913, George Geionety quite possibly painted more Indian profiles than any other Native American artist. Known as Beikoigei (Water Bag to Travel); Geionety (Comanche Enemy) or Oyebi (Side of a Mountain) Geionety traces his artistic heritage back to the great Silverhorn. He said that his inspiration to paint began in the 1930's after a visit to nearby Fort Sill, Oklahoma where he saw a picture painted on buckskin by the man that raised his mother. This man was Geionety's grandfather Haubaht. Haubaht and Silverhorn were friends. After Haubaht died Silverhorn raised Haubaht's daughter, Geionety's mother. Geionety is also related to Stumblingbear, a major Kiowa chief and signer of the Medicine Lodge treaty in 1876. While of Kiowa/ Comanche heritage his subject matter is primarily portraits that pay particular attention to the detail of traditional clothes
and headgear. He also is known for his Peyote ceremonial paintings. . Geionety died in 1992