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Original Watercolor on Paper by Mark Silversmith

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Original Watercolor on Paper by Mark Silversmith
depicting Native Americans on horseback galloping through a river, signed lower right. Image measures 7"x22" with triple mat and rustic wood frame. Born on the Navajo Reservation in 1954, Mark Silversmith comes from a family of silversmiths. After graduating from Southwestern Oklahoma State at Weathorford, OK, Mark taught art and industrial art classes to elementary and middle school students at the BIA school, Dzilth-na-o-dith-hle, south of Bloomfield, NM. He followed this with a B.A. degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University and taught junior high school for seven years. He then turned professional artist and in 1982 married Barbara, who is also now his agent. Silversmith studies all North American Indian tribes for their culture and traditions in preparation for his paintings. Since the different tribes traded among each other sometimes the subjects in his paintings may be dressed in the breastplate of one tribe and wearing another article of clothing or beads from another tribe. It is Mark Silversmith's belief that all tribes have a common bond.