Displaced Peoples 2

Chris Pappan, artist

Cultural affiliations: Osage, Kaw, Cheyenne River Lakota Sioux

born 1971

Displaced Peoples 2, 2011

Where object was made: New Mexico, United States

Material/technique: wood panel; acrylic

Dimensions:
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 110 x 82 cm
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 43 5/16 x 32 5/16 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 46 1/4 x 35 1/4 x 1 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2012.0010

On display: Loo Gallery

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"Passages: Persistent Visions of a Native Place," Sep-2011, Nancy Mahaney
This piece is the first in a series of paintings that reproduces historical antique maps of Indian territories focusing on removal and relocation events to the Central Plains in what became Indian Territory in present-day Kansas and Oklahoma. Distorted figures of people endemic to those areas are juxtaposed on the map to show the impact of how a simple little line on a map can devastate an entire populace. The figures are distorted because people have a distorted view of American Indians in their minds and we are also guilty of distorting that image as well.