'Lady Missouri', Great, Great, Grandma, full blood Cherokee American Indian, A Cherokee Fantasy by luvapples downunder/ Norval Arbogast
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NOTE in my paintings I use famous paintings in the background to set the historical mood for my
Imagined Ladies.
A Beautiful Song to go with this artwork,one of my favorites.
Oh Shanandoah, Across the Wide Missouri
This is a fantasy painting of what I would like GG Grandma to look like. All the information I have is just names in old documents and family pass down. GG Grandpa came from Spain to this territory that would become Missouri in the late 1700’s and married GG Grandma a full blood Cherokee. Their son my G Grandpa married a full blood Cherokee too. A picture from those years doesn’t exist so I have taken one of my Botticelli’s ladies and modified it with traits that have come down through the generations. For the background I have used renowned Missouri frontier painter George Caleb Binghams’s ‘Fur Traders on the Missouri’. I have modified it in photoshop to better fit my design in color and size. I hope you enjoy this little personal fantasy. I have enjoyed creating it.Mouse drawn and painted in photoshop 5.5
Comments
wow what a treasure u have created Norval, shes just beautiful like i would imagine an indian princess to be , you must be very proud of this one xxx
Thank You Bev, I did this one on the spur of the moment. Marie and I were going through some geneology files, just dry names of pleople and place. I don’t know the Indian names just the christian name in the church records are given, but tribe is given. So one just has to use their imagiation. I have used Missouri dogwood blosoms and wild canary feathers and fresh water pearl. All still available in Missouri. The dress is a form of traditional silk Cherokee shirt dress with wildflower embroidery. Some are still in little local museums here.
– luvapples downunder/ Norval Arbogast
Lovely painting Norval!
Thank you Frances
– luvapples downunder/ Norval Arbogast
beautifully stunning~ the texture u have created in the detail of her dress is amazing! wonderful work!
Thank You Helene, I can’t wait to get back to your gallery for long looks, I love your work.
– luvapples downunder/ Norval Arbogast
A beautiful Grandmother.
My Great, great, great was 1/2 Cherokee, came West to California in 1848. Mary Olson Rupley.
The treatment of her dress is lovely, really beautiful, as is her face. The beople on the canoe behind her would be an interesting picture in detail, by themselves.
Thank You, the Picture behind is by a very famous Missouri frontier artist George Caleb Bingham, I have always loved his work. He has wonderful pencils of frontier life as well as very colorful political paintings. It’s funny some kids on here had this picture up and were trying to figure out what unknown french painter could have painted this it was so good.
– luvapples downunder/ Norval Arbogast
Oh and one of my other GG granmother at eighty seven traveled to California in 1850 with one of her daughters and husband. I traced the family through the mining camps and to Santa Rosa, but could not find where they were buried. That part of the cemetary for that period had a lot of unmarked graves. There was a journal written and published here of that wagon train trip in an old geneology magazine. When we lost our house to the floods in ‘99, it and all our files of geneology were lost. I will have to try and find another copy. it was published in southern Missouri.
– luvapples downunder/ Norval Arbogast
Thank you, I love your paintings, especially the landscapes of your homeland. Beautiful
– luvapples downunder/ Norval Arbogast
beautiful work Norval!! :)
Thank You Karin, I just commented on your mixed medial flowers. I loved it, it reminded me of one of my favorite artist ‘Ruault’ only your sense of color is much better.
– luvapples downunder/ Norval Arbogast
oh she is so beautiful norval i have studied the am indian culture all my life and it is so sad and tragic my wife family were part choctaw and my grand daughter is half indian too so their culture is close to my heart i once spent a month in the four corners visiting all the old ruins and was washed away with awe on the building they built with nothing but their own hands and sweat my wife had the high cheek bones and lips too of their facual make up and so did one of my daughters i have been through were you live in 62 while driving through the country with a cousin of mine who was later killed in nam it that crazy useless war keep your art coming andlove it as your self are a part of it
Marie, my wife has Chactaw ,Pawnee, Cherokee, Cheyane and Osage, and different european nationalities. We are a mixed brew through this part of Missouri. This was the main area for the Osage, I have old letters about them my ggg grandpa wrote when he settle here when they opened up this area for settlement in 1839. I still have the land grants. But lo all the land was sold years ago.
– luvapples downunder/ Norval Arbogast
my dad.s family came in the 1600,s there is a moutain in new hampshire named after the family – i did not know it till i did the family history in the late 50,s it is fun to look into your back ground and see all the nationalies and tribes you have running through your blood haha i counted 6 differnt nationalaities in me when i quit looking i have no am indian but my half sister does- only my wife had am indian in our family- but still i have loved and studied th e tribes and painted many of the published photos or old old am indians i think i have done up to 50 over the years i once had a rock garden that i painted petroglyths all over and a person came by once and wanted to have me arrested for taking artafacs haha they were all of my making haha missouri was pertty wild just before the civil war you wife is the unnited nations of am indians haha
That’s fantastic about your dad. Marie and I have had so much fun doing geneology and have had many surprises. My friend on here Barbara [aquaarte] from Germany sent me pictures of the churches a part of my family and a part of Maries family attended and which had their european records. Brought dead geneology to life for us.
– luvapples downunder/ Norval Arbogast
It’s an ever going on process, always more to find out. And then it like you say, fleshing out the little details that make your ancesters feel like you actually knew them.
– luvapples downunder/ Norval Arbogast
yes,norval,i once walked in the foot steps of my g,g, grand dad,at a battle he fought at, during the civil war, and got goose bumps to think he had passed over this bridge to fight, just on the other side and many of his comrads were kiiled just a few feet beyond this bridge,so, yes putting blood and bones, make it all the more intereting,to think,you in part,were a body of your own history,romantic , but true
Yes, same here. I’m lucky enough to be walking the same ground they walked, and handling and reading stuff from their own hands. mom was a keeper, :-D
– luvapples downunder/ Norval Arbogast