Yeffe kimball biography of michael

  • In actuality Yeffe Kimball was Effie Y. Goodman, born in 1906, one of the nine children of Missouri farmer Oather Alvis Goodman and his spouse.
  • Directions in Indian Art: The Report of a Conference Held at the University of Arizona on March Twentieth and Twenty-First, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty Nine.
  • Chapter One introduces Yeffe Kimball's biography, beginning with what is known of her early life and then considers the institutions of art.

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    From the Archives: 23 Contemporary Indian Artists

     

    “23 Contemporary Indian Artists,” Lloyd E. Oxendine’s essay for A.i.A.’s July-August 1972 issue, was the first major survey of Native art to appear in a national magazine. As such, it is a seminal document. “Even today,” Kathleen Ash-Milby writes in our October issue, “most students and teachers of Native art are familiar with Oxendine’s article because it was such rare coverage for the time.”

    Oxendine offers an appraisal of the contemporary Native art scene. His huvud observation is that that ung Native artists had begun to rebel against folkloric conventions and embrace new artistic techniques. This was a response to changing circumstances rather than a rejection of their roots. Indian artists, Oxendine writes, “are, no matter how tribally oriented, modern dock and women.” Oxendine’s essay fryst vatten accompanied by twenty-three capsule critical biog

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    Lamb and Green Chile Stew, a terrific Zuni recipe courtesy of "The Art of American Indian Cooking" (1971).

    In the June 1972 issue of American Vogue, food columnist Maxime de La Falaise introduced readers to the Native American recipes of Yeffe Kimball, a half-Osage, half-English artist. It was hard not to fall under the spell of Kimball’s romantic aura, from her thickly woven braids to her fringed tribal dresses to her admired paintings, which melded 20th-century modernism with Native American motifs in a manner that won the admiration of collectors and curators. In fact in the 1960s and 1970s few Native Americans were as well known as Yeffe Kimball or as respected. Trouble was, she wasn’t Osage.

    Kimball, who died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1978, was an artist, yes, and a fine one. The praise she garnered was entirely deserved. Unfortunately she didn’t have one iota of Native American blood. Her name, Yeffe, didn’t mean Wandering Star; he

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    Pretendian

    One who falsely claims to be Native American or Indigenous Canadian

    Pretendian (portmanteau of pretend and Indian[1][2][3]) is a pejorativecolloquialism describing a person who has falsely claimed Indigenous identity by professing to be a citizen of a Native American or First Nationtribal nation, or to be descended from Native American or First Nation ancestors.[4][5][6][7] As a practice, being a pretendian is considered an extreme form of cultural appropriation,[8] especially if that individual then asserts that they can represent, and speak for, communities from which they do not originate.[3][8][9][10] The practice has sometimes been called Indigenous identity fraud,[11][1] ethnic fraud, and race shifting.[12][13]

    Early false claims to native identity, often called "playing Indian", go back at least