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Work of innovative Indigenous artists shines in Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts exhibit

March 23, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.

by Sean Clancy

“Firelights,” T.C. (Tommy Wayne) Cannon, oil on canvas, is one of the works included in “Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s to 1970s” at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Collection/Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts)
“Firelights,” T.C. (Tommy Wayne) Cannon, oil on canvas, is one of the works included in “Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s to 1970s” at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Collection/Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts)

So this is what happens when a group of creative, fearless Native American artists absorb modern-art movements like abstract expressionism, color field and hard-edge painting.

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