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: 4" x 12") Limited Edition Print

Stickball sticks are traditionally made with one vertical leather lace and one horizontal leather lace. Squared off handles are also the traditional design.


$25.00
Choctaw Stickball

(image area: 8 x 10) Limited Edition Print

These are the Choctaw words for counting from one to ten. The dancers in the upper right corner are doing a Duck Dance.


$25.00
Choctaw Numbers

(image area: 11x14) Limited Edition Print on paper

This Limited Edition of the Choctaw Trail of Tears is printed on paper and slightly smaller than the Canvas Edition. 

 


$50.00
Choctaw Trail of Tears

Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36

These women are wearing clothing of the Five Civilized Tribes. From left to right, they are: Muskogee (Creek), Chickasaw, Cherokee, Seminole and Choctaw. The Five Civilized Tribes is a historical term was was given to these five, Southeastern Tribes as a group. 

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$3,000.00
Five Civilized Women

(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
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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