Rance Hood "Moonlight Hunt" Serigraph Framed Hand Signed

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"Moonlight Hunt "
by Rance Hood
Original Limited Edition Serigraph on Paper
Hand Signed by the Artist
Frame Size: 35" … Read more "Moonlight Hunt "
by Rance Hood
Original Limited Edition Serigraph on Paper
Hand Signed by the Artist
Frame Size: 35" x 43"
Custom Frame
Image Size: 23.5" x 31"
Edition Number: 166/300
Condition: Good
Gallery Retail is $1,200.00 (framed)
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Rance Hood

Rance Hood has lived all of his life in an area bounded by Andarko, Cash, and Lawton Oklahoma. This land, not reservation, is held in title by Indians among lands opened to the great homestead land rushes of the 1800s. The area in which he was born and lives today is the ancestral home of the Comanche and Kiowa tribes. Thus, natural landmarks hold for Hood the same importance he learned from his grandfather. He will point out places while riding in a car today that have names and references belonging exclusively to tribal history and legend.Of his work a critic writes: Hood's paintings are incarnations of a world of power. Contained by the canvases, his figures and the power they bear intensify and, like dreams, burst through the bounds we have set for them, threatening the safe distinction between art and life, vision and reality.
It is a world haunted by isolated warriors who seem to be without their communities save for a few distant blue figures who now and then appear in the far space of the paintings. Their very presence, remote as they are, increases the warriors isolation rather than mitigating it. Sometimes there are two warrior figures, dancing or fighting, rituals which separate as much as they engage. Hood realized his ultimate direction upon reading John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks and finding that many of Black Elk s visions corresponded exactly to those his grandfather had related to him. Black Elk, the revered Oglala Sioux medicine man, saw both Custer's death and the slaughter at Wounded Knee. In one of his greatest visions Black Elk leads his people through four ascents, representing the four generations he will live to see. The first three ascents show happier times, but at the fourth the vision becomes terrible:Then when the people were getting ready to begin the fourth ascent, the Voice spoke like someone weeping, and it said Look there upon your nation. See less