Native American Artist, Choctaw Artist, Choctaw Art, Original Native American paintings and colored pencil drawings, limited edition prints and notecards depicting Choctaw culture, language and games by Choctaw artist Gwen Coleman Lester

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(image area: 3x4) Limited Edition Print

The young Choctaw couple in this miniature print are standing in front of a Choctaw style house made of palmetto leaves. 

 


$25.00
Young Love
17x22, Charcoal on paper

The Choctaw Nation has a herd of buffalo that is in an area in Southeastern Oklahoma known as Buffalo Valley. It's close to Tushkahoma, Oklahoma.
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Buffalo Valley

(image area: 8x10) Colored Pencil on paper

The words on the left are the 23rd Psalms written in the Choctaw language. In the upper right corner is a Southeastern landscape. The woman in the center is wearing her traditional Choctaw dress.


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Meditation
24 x 48, acrylic on canvas

Native Americans were not allowed to vote in every state until 1962. Legislation in 1924 granted Natives citizenship, but the right to vote was still governed state by state. Don't take your right to vote for granted. The burden basket has copies of headlines and stories regarding native voting rights added to it.
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Just Vote
10 x 8, Watercolor on paper

The Choctaw were the first tribe to be invited by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian to present a festival celebrating their culture. This is a War Dance. Choctaws are among the few tribes that allow women to participate in a war dance. They acknowledged the women's contributions to their effort.
$1,500.00
War Dance at the Smithsonian

(size: 18x24) Canvas Print

This limited edition canvas print is a reproduction of the mural that Gwen painted that now hangs in the Choctaw Nation Museum in Tuskahoma, Oklahoma. This Choctaw artwork depicts the Choctaw Removal from Mississippi to the Indian Territory now known as Oklahoma. This print is also available in a paper edition.


$125.00
Choctaw Trail of Tears
Welcome to Native Traditions Artworks, art by Gwen Coleman Lester, a member and registered Choctaw artist of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Gwen paints and draws anything that relates to Choctaw history and culture. She uses a myriad of styles and mediums. The sizes range from miniatures to murals. 

Gwen regularly participates in Native art festivals and museum exhibits and competitions. She was inducted as a Master Artist for the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in 2007.Choctaw Nation has purchased her art as well as commissioning her work in murals. Gwen has done book covers for a major publisher and fully illustrated two children's books. Gwen welcomes commissions. Please contact her initially by email.

As always, I appreciate your interest in my art & in Choctaw culture.
YAKOKE--thanks-- for visiting my website.  

Gwen


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