Watercolor Paintings in Color by the Indians of Oklahoma. Nice (France): Originally published by C. Republished by Bell Editions, Santa Fe, 1979. STEVEN MOPOPE — One of the most illustrious of the Kiowa artists of the twentieth century, Steven Mopope (Qued Koi, Painted Robe) was a prolific painter. A descendant of Spaniards and Kiowas, he was born on August 27, 1898, on the Kiowa Reservation in Indian Territory. By November 1927 his art had received national recognition and in 1928, he and four other artists (known as the Kiowa Five) were featured in an international exhibition in Prague, Czechoslovakia. A now-famous portfolio of silk-screened prints was published in France in 1929. Then, in 1979, Bell Editions, Inc. Of Santa Fe NM, published a facsimile edition of the 1932 edition. These prints are rare reproductions of the original paintings. Mopope’s work is represented in galleries and collections throughout the United States, among them the Gilcrease Museum, the Philbrook Museum of Art, the Museum of the American Indian in New York and murals in the federal building for the U. Department of the Interior in Washington, D. The size of these limited edition prints are 11″ x 15″ on stiff heavy paper and are printed by six-color offset lithography.
