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Pencil Sketch Paintings Biography

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Two small books of vivid drawings—one filled with images by the Southern Cheyenne warrior-artist Howling Wolf and the other with images by Zotom, a Kiowa man—came to the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, now part of the Autry National Center, in December 1986. The books were gifts from Leonora Curtin Paloheimo, and had been commissioned directly from the artists in 1877 by Paloheimo’s grandmother, Eva Scott Muse Fényes (1849–1930). At the time Fényes commissioned the books, Zotom and Howling Wolf were imprisoned at Fort Marion in Saint Augustine, Florida. Like some of the other Southern Plains Indian prisoners held there between mid-1875 and mid-1878, the two men created many drawings for diverse reasons. Some of the prisoners’ books of drawings, including the two that Fényes collected, were sold to people who visited the sixteenth-century Spanish fort.

After Eva Scott Fényes’s death, the books went to her daughter, Leonora Muse Curtin (1879–1972), and subsequently they were passed to Leonora Curtin Paloheimo (1903–1999). More than one hundred years after their creation, the books became part of the Southwest Museum’s collections. Unlike most of the museum’s other holdings of Native American art, these two books originated with a commission by Fényes, a young woman who continued as a patron of the arts for the remainder of her life.

The study of what has become known as Plains Indian ledger art—because the artists frequently used accountants’ ledger books as sources of paper—and of Fort Marion drawings in particular, has burgeoned in the last forty years. Joyce Szabo’s examination of the two drawing books by Zotom and Howling Wolf encompasses their origins and the issues surrounding their commission as well as what the images say about their creators and their collector. Szabo augments the complete reproduction of each page with detail photographs of the drawings.

Awards

2012 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award
Winner
2011 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year
Winner in Social Sciences, Bronze
Contributors: Joyce M. Szabo

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“Plains Indian ledger art, so named because the artists used discarded ledger books for their sketches, has come into its own during the last 40 years. A gift of two ledgers to the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, now part of the Autry National Center, is the basis for this delightful book by Szabo (Univ. of New Mexico). Howling Wolf and Zotom at last receive an audience for their artistic creations during their imprisonment at Fort Mation in Saint Augustine, Florida, during the 1870s—far from their Cheyenne and Kiowa villages. These ledgers originally were commissioned by painter Eva Scott Muse Fényes, a young woman who worked tirelessly to preserve remaining vestiges of the vanishing western culture and placed great value on the renderings of these Indian prisoners. The drawings are visual narratives that tell poignant stories of a vanishing way of life. They provide insight into the lives, histories, and mind-sets of these Native peoples. The volumes do not contain a continuous story line; instead each drawing is an entity unto itself, a key to an event. Szabo brings expertise and empathy to this important volume, which is enhanced by numerous beautifully rendered color illustrations. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.”
—A. Wirkkala, Choice, May 2012 vol. 49 no. 09
Rick Mittelstedt has been creating artwork professionally for over thirty years. His first efforts at drawing caught the attention of his 5th grade teacher who thought it was inappropriate for him to create sketches during class. That trip to the principal's office only inspired him to continue to draw and sketch...but his next efforts were comic book superheroes. He still has the personal letter from Stan Lee encouraging him to continue drawing which further motivated his artistic pursuits.

His artwork helped pay his way through college, completing a Bachelor of Science Degree in geophysics; Masters Degrees in Space Science and Ancient Semitic Languages and later advanced doctoral study in Ancient Archaeology.

His work experience as a geophysical analyst traveling throughout the southwestern United States and his work at NASA during the first Space Shuttle flights inspired his early oil paintings. Over a 1000 of his art pieces hang in private personal collections, as well as, private corporations and government space agencies throughout the United States.

Fifteen years ago while exploring the ancient archaeological ruins in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon, his artistic efforts began to merge with his education and his creative artwork began to take on a voice of inspirational fantasy. His new work on the Genesis Project and science fiction and fantasy artwork are expressions of that voice.
Rick Mittelstedt creates his artwork in association with a group of other artists affliated with Mountaintop Vision Studios secluded in the Rocky Mountains.. He works in traditional oil media on linen and canvas, but has expanded his creativity to the digital media.

He lives in an off -the- grid, self -sustainable home he built with his own hands [with alot of help from his family and close friends] . His studio is located high in the Rocky Mountains where he lives with his family, four blue heelers, and assortment of friends like bears, elk, deer, chipmunks, blue jays, and bobcats.

Glynnis Miller is a self-taught pencil artist who discovered the love of drawing at a young age and always had a pencil in hand. Glynnis began her career as a professional artist only after retiring from the medical field.

Glynnis’ work portrays her lifelong love of horses and the western lifestyle. The ranching community of Elko, Nevada was Glynnis’ home during her school years and the influence of Elko’s ranches, cowboys, rodeos and (of course) horses is evident in her artwork. The freedom and rugged independence of the cowboy lifestyle in the wide open spaces of the west has always appealed to Glynnis and she is honored to portray this in her art.

The pencil, graphite or charcoal, is Glynnis’ medium of choice. Each drawing is meticulously planned and the result of hundreds of hours with the tiny tip of a sharp pencil. Patience and focus are a requirement with this simplest, yet complex medium.

“My goal is to create texture, contrast and form with painstaking layering and shading resulting in a drawing that leaps off the paper and allows the viewer to “see” color. It’s my desire to capture beauty and soul, regardless of the subject matter. Beauty has the power to evoke powerful emotions and fill us with awe and wonder. I hope to inspire these feelings and provide food for the soul through my art that may be enjoyed for a lifetime”.

Glynnis has received numerous awards, including many “Best in show” and her work is in many private collections across the west.