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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18x 24, Acrylic on canvas

Girl Power is written in the Choctaw language across the top of the canvas. More and more young women and girls are playing the ancient game of stickball. In years past, there were few that participated, but now there are enough girls playing to form their own teams.
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Girl Power
4 x 14, Watercolor on paper

Traditional Choctaw stickball sticks are designed with one vertical leather lace and one horizontal. The handles are squared. The ball is woven in leather over a round base such as a stone or wooden ball.The diamonds in the background are a design on traditional Choctaw clothing.
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Stickball Sticks with Diamonds

(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: 5x7) Limited Edition Print

The Choctaw Snake Dance is reproduced from an acrylic painting. It shows how the dance is done by a line formed with men in the front, followed by the women.

 


$20.00
Snake Dance

(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
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
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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