Andy Warhol
Cowboys and Indians Portfolio
John Wayne Warhol Annie Oakley Warhol Custer Warhol
Geronimo Andy Warhol Cowboys and Indians 1986 The
Cowboys and Indians portfolio of ten prints features well-known figures:
John Wayne and Teddy Roosevelt - -who are not so much "cowboys" as American
heroes, as well as less familiar images of Native Americans. Geronimo
faces the viewer with a mixture of rage, strength, and fear; while the
anonymous Mother and Child reveals a quiet resilience in the face of
encroaching authority. In Warhol's portfolio, Native Americans and their
artifacts are shown as fragile, in danger of being forgotten, or in the case
of Indian Head Nickel, of being perpetually stereotyped. Cowboys
and Indians forces us to question our notions of the "hero" and
"heroine" of the American West and to ponder their relationship to the
voiceless heroes of our Native American past.
text from the Palmer Museum of Art
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