Bleeding Eagles
Oil on linen
10 X 18 feet (3 X 5.50m.)
1989-91


Bleeding Eagles
 

A work on Natives depicting a scene imparting various allusions, symbolism and contrasting elements.

The composition sets intense dark blue figures inside two fire-red rectangular planes whose upper parts recede outward creating a wide V-shaped central section dominated by two fighting eagles.  
The eagles span their wings in a crisscross formation scattering flying feathers over a grey-white space defined by bluish flowing forms outlining drawn faces of some native chiefs among them Pontiac, Joseph, Cochise, Crazy Horse, Black Hawk, Red Cloud, and Sitting Bull.
Above the chiefs’ heads and across the upper plane, sweeping shapes of red strips with black-blue contours fuse with flowing lines of varying densities. They appear dripping in rhythmic succession  intensifying the movement and tension of the scene.






 

 

 


 

americapaintings | discovery | encounter | covenant | birth | branching | eagles | chains | split | dawn | 
Bleeding Eagles 

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Bleeding Eagles

Oil on Linen

12 X 18 Feet (3.65 X 5.50m)

1989-91