Indian with Turquoise Earrings Portrait

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Provenance:
Olaf Wieghorst
Roy Wieghorst
by decent in the family

Two subjects would captivate the attention of Kathryn Woodman Leighton throughout much of her career: Glacier National Park and Native American portraits, of which she did hundreds, if not thousands. In 1910, after living on the East Coast, Leighton and her husband moved to Los Angeles, where she dove headfirst into the art world. A party at painter Jack Wilkinson Smith’s house is where she was introduced to Charles M. Russell, who would become a friend and colleague. Leighton and her husband would later join Charlie and Nancy Russell at the Bull Head Lodge on Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park. In 1926, Russell introduced Leighton to Blackfeet Indians in Montana, which helped pave the way for many of her greatest portraits.

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