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Dark Reign

Artist Norman Akers (North American Indian, Osage; Pawnee, born 1958)
Date2014
MediumLithograph on paper
DimensionsImage: 20 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (52.71 × 41.91 cm)
Sheet: 28 1/4 × 22 3/8 inches (71.76 × 56.83 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: acquired through the generosity of the Print Society
Object number2017.9
SignedRight side in pencil: Norman Akers
MarkingsLeft side in pencil: "Dark Reign;" Middle in pencil: 7/20
Edition/State/Proofed. 7/20
On View
Not on view
DescriptionPrint that includes images of Indians, former presidents in flying saucers, a raven and a stork.Exhibition History

[RE]CLAIM: Indigenous Artists Reflect on Identity, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, December 14–June 16, 2019.

Provenance
Purchased from Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Published References
Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Copyright© Norman Akers
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