Carl Sweezy
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Arts, Social Science
- Subcategories: Painting, Painters, Drawing, Native Americans, American Indians, Anthropology, Anthropologists
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1878-1900, American Indian History
Article abstract: Carl Sweezy was one of the earliest to use the Native American narrative genre style of painting, and he developed it beyond ledger-book-style drawings.
Sweezy began drawing as a child and learned to do watercoloring in school. At the age of twenty, he became an informant for James Mooney, an anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, when the latter did a study of the Cheyenne and Arapaho. Mooney needed an artist to restore paint on old shields and to copy designs, and Sweezy did that for him. Mooney liked his work and encouraged him to...
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