Must I Stand Up

$205.00

6.25” x 8” (15.88 x 20.32 cm) Opaque watercolor on repurposed, recycled paper. Métis young man looks at the viewer with… a challenge? Interest? Cigarette smoke getting in his right eye. Like on many Indian Reservations in North America, he was gifted a baseball cap with a few feathers in it. Original. Signed.

6.25” x 8” (15.88 x 20.32 cm) Opaque watercolor on repurposed, recycled paper. Métis young man looks at the viewer with… a challenge? Interest? Cigarette smoke getting in his right eye. Like on many Indian Reservations in North America, he was gifted a baseball cap with a few feathers in it. Original. Signed.

The artist pictured a scene out of late 20th century rural Indian Country. Maybe this was near Edmonton on a long, long summer afternoon. The establishment’s door is open, the clack of billiards in the background. Maybe this was near Klamath Falls after a scorching day working up in the mountains, the coin jukebox sings a country song. None of that no-shoes, no-shirt, no-service here. Sunlight beams down through a high window or skylight. This is a one-of-a-kind original. Signed.