Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke), 1880 Crow Peace Delegation: Peelatchiwaaxpáash/Medicine Crow (Raven), 2014. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Purchase with exchange funds from the Pearlstone Family Fund and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Baltimore Museum of Art
As part of its 2020 Vision initiative, a commitment made in 2020 to purchase only works by female-identifying artists that calendar year, the Baltimore Museum of Art recently acquired a phenomenal work by contemporary Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star. According to the museum, 2020 Vision “builds on the museum’s efforts over the last several years to expand its presentations of female-identifying artists and artists of color to more accurately reflect the community in which it lives.”
Red Star’s artwork, titled 1880 Crow Peace Delegation, is a series made up of 10 historic portraits with text written by the artist over each photograph that explain various cultural elements within them. The photographs depict five of the six Crow members who traveled to Washington, D.C., to discuss a treaty with the United States government regarding the boundaries of the Crow Indian Reservation, which had been drastically reduced and continued to be reduced until 1905. Red Star’s text also includes information and commentary on the lives of the sitters themselves.
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