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Prima Ballerina Framed Print featuring the drawing Maria Tallchief Ballerina by Robert Running Fisher Upham

Frame

Top Mat

Top Mat

Bottom Mat

Bottom Mat

Dimensions

Image:

6.50" x 10.00"

Mat Border:

2.00"

Frame Width:

0.88"

Overall:

12.00" x 15.50"

 

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Maria Tallchief Ballerina Framed Print

Robert Running Fisher Upham

by Robert Running Fisher Upham

$169.00

Product Details

Maria Tallchief Ballerina framed print by Robert Running Fisher Upham.   Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.

Design Details

Maria Tallchief in Orpheus... more

Ships Within

3 - 4 business days

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Comments (1)

Alex Mir

Alex Mir

Congratulations on your sale, Robert!

Artist's Description

Maria Tallchief in Orpheus
The New York Ballet Company was founded by Ballanchine and his wife, Maria Tallchief. Maria Tallchief is an American Indian woman of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. She is America’s first Prima Ballerina. Robert chose her for this ledger to benefit the aspirations of young American Indian girls. He wishes that through his art, American Indian contributions will become more visible and celebrated.
This image shows Maria Tallchief in her most famous role, one which was created to highlight her distinctive style. In the story the Lord of the Underworld is entranced by the emotional power of her dancing, and kidnaps her into the underworld to dance and dwell forever. Her husband Orpheus follows her into the underworld, plays his violin to charm the Lord of the Underground, wagering with him in order to bring her back into life. The Lord finally agrees, with the stipulation that she must follow Orpheus and he must not look back. At the very last minute, wh...

About Robert Running Fisher Upham

Robert Running Fisher Upham

Robert “Running Fisher” Upham is a mixed-blood Indian, (enrolled member of Lake Traverse Sioux, community member by blood from Salish, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, and Pend Oreille tribes). He has a history of social justice activism combined with being a chronicler and artist. At age 32 , he walked across the United States with American Indian Movement founder Dennis Banks. He produced a winter count on elk hide in support of the freedom of Leonard Peltier as part of that walk. In 1998, at age 36, he led a 35-mile march about genocidal legal practices in Indian Country. The march was from Denver to Boulder, to the headquarters of one of the institutions that has failed to change these practices. In 2014, his cousin requested that he...

 

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