I like the paintings of Hal Sherman - they are folksy and naive in style but delightful to look at and usually covering obscure moments in Ohio history - usually around the Shawnee, Northwest territory subjecta and the War of 1812. This one is Death of General Richard Butler" or "Butler's Demise" 1791 at the battle of St. Clair's Defeat. There's a series of videos of a lecture with images on the subject of his Indian paintings below and you can see a gallery of some of his images here.
American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
Saturday, 16 January 2010
Hal Sherman talks about his Native American paintings
I like the paintings of Hal Sherman - they are folksy and naive in style but delightful to look at and usually covering obscure moments in Ohio history - usually around the Shawnee, Northwest territory subjecta and the War of 1812. This one is Death of General Richard Butler" or "Butler's Demise" 1791 at the battle of St. Clair's Defeat. There's a series of videos of a lecture with images on the subject of his Indian paintings below and you can see a gallery of some of his images here.
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Defending Fort Stanwix
Old Fort Niagara has a free zoom lecture for this on the 21 November. Check the webpage. In Defending Fort Stanwix , William L. Kidder tel...
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This is the first stage of an excellent project. This is the corner tower of a recreation of the fort in the movie Drums Along the Mohawk... -
It's not easy photographing smaller figures but Richard has done an excellent job. These miniatures are excellent. He says 'The... -
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This came out in 1984. Was an excellent addition to a small set of books.
His painting of the burnong of col. crawford is a well design straight forward portrayl of the usual fate of whitemen, in the ohio wars. The charcoal balckened face, and tied to a center post, as the indians gather fire wood is without current day PC attitude, and showed the indians defending their lands with all the savagery they could find, as they realized they could depend only on themselves to present the on rushing tide of whitemen. excellent work
ReplyDeleteHal I believe I use to talk to you about the Shawnee paintings you did The death of Cornstalk, and his sister Nonhelema. And how my Auntie resembles her. I am Becky Henricks bates_henricks@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteHal, I believe I use to talk to you about the Shawnee Cornstalk and his sister Nonhelema. You shared a number of pictures with me. I had told you how my Auntie resembled you Nonhelema. Becky Henricks
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know where Hal Sherman's artwork is housed now?
ReplyDeleteYes. Email me at skbigm @ gmail.com
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