[John Willis collection of Lakota Art].

[2008-2019]

13.5 linear feet (8 boxes) + 1 broadside

Purchased from John Willis on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2020.

Organized into five series: I. Gilbert Kills Pretty Enemy, III, 2016. II. Quinton Maldonado, 2015-2016. III. Joe Pulliam, 2017-2019. IV. Dwayne Wilcox, 2008-2016. V. Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Art, 2016-2019.

This material is open for research.

John Willis is a documentary photographer and a former instructor of photography at Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont.

Drawings and inkjet prints of drawings created by Lakota artists, 2008-2017, as well as art produced by others related to protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, 2016-2019. Artists represented in the collection include Gilbert Kills Pretty Enemy, III, Quinton Maldonado, Joe Pulliam, and Dwayne Wilcox. It includes 25 original drawings as well as 20 inkjet prints of drawings. More than half of the works created by the artists integrate paper from ledgers. Six works related to protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline chiefly consists of screen-prints on cloth, which includes an example designed by Dignidad Rebelde, a collaborative graphic arts project.

English

June 16, 2021

Finding aid available.

John Willis Collection of Lakota Art. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

John Willis Collection of Lakota Art. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.