Top image: George de Forest Brush (American, 1854/1855–1941), An Arapahoe Boy, c. 1882. Grisaille oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Jane Wyeth in memory of her parents, Gertrude Ketover Gleklen and Leo Gleklen.

Bottom image: Fritz Scholder (Luiseño, 1937–2005), Monster Indian, 1968. Oil on canvas. Collection of Loren and Anne Kieve.

Images of the American Indian
1600–2000

A Wyeth Foundation for American Art Conference presented by the National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, “Images of the American Indian, 1600–2000” is held on the occasion of the exhibitions George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings (September 14, 2008–January 4, 2009) and Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian (November 1, 2008–August 16, 2009, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.; November 1, 2008–May 17, 2009, National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, New York).

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2008
ELMER AND MARY LOUISE RASMUSON THEATER
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
WASHINGTON, D.C.
(Main entrance at Third Street & Maryland Avenue, SW)

Afternoon Session
3 p.m.

kevin gover
National Museum of the American Indian
Welcome

nancy anderson, moderator
National Gallery of Art

paul chaat smith
National Museum of the American Indian
Who’s Afraid of Fritz Scholder?

leah dilworth
Long Island University
A Present Absence: Cliff Dwellers in the American Imagination

michael gaudio
University of Minnesota
Speaking Images: Picturing Native American Dance, 1592/1894

william truettner
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Painting Indians and Building Empires in North America,
1710–1840

6–8 p.m.

All conference participants are invited to a reception in the Potomac Atrium.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008
EAST BUILDING AUDITORIUM
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
WASHINGTON, D.C.
(East Building entrance at Fourth Street & Constitution Avenue, NW)

Morning Session
10 a.m.

elizabeth cropper
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
Welcome

therese o’malley, moderator
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

nancy anderson
National Gallery of Art
Life Studies: The Indian Paintings of George de Forest Brush

ned blackhawk
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Surviving the American Conquest: A New History of
America’s Indians over Four Centuries

katherine manthorne
The City University of New York
Art, Women, and the Indians, c. 1876

Afternoon Session
2 p.m.

paul chaat smith, moderator
National Museum of the American Indian

kate flint
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Photography, Modernity, and the American Indian
in Britain, 1840–1905

philip deloria
University of Michigan
Toward an Indian Abstract: The Outsider Art of Mary Sully

jolene rickard
Cornell University
Visions from within Indigenous America