Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract

by Philip J. Deloria

Book Overview

Dakota Sioux artist Mary Sully was the great-granddaughter of respected nineteenth-century portraitist Thomas Sully, who captured the personalities of America's first generation of celebrities (including the figure of Andrew Jackson immortalized on the twenty-dollar bill). Born on the Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota in 1896, she was largely self-taught. Steeped in the visual traditions of beadwork, quilling, and hide painting, she also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295745045
• ISBN13: 9780295745046
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 8.9"