Adele Collins

Adele Collins
Born
Martha Adele Victor

(1908-01-24)January 24, 1908
Blanchard, Oklahoma
DiedMarch 7, 1996(1996-03-07) (aged 88)
Blanchard, Oklahoma
NationalityChickasaw Nation, American
EducationSt. Elizabeth's Indian Boarding School
Known forpainting
MovementAbstract Expressionism
SpousePatrick Collins

Adele Collins (January 24, 1908 – March 7, 1996) was a 20th-century Native American painter.[1] She was born in Blanchard, Oklahoma and was an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation with Choctaw and Irish descent.[2] Collins moved fluidly between representational and abstraction in her paintings, depicting an array of events and themes combining her Chickasaw and Choctaw heritage with contemporary European modernist approaches. Rennard Strickland, law professor and curator, placed Adele Collins in the first wave of post-World War II Native American painters.[3]

  1. ^ "Pueblo Record". Smithsonian Collections. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  2. ^ Mary Jo Watson, "Oklahoma Indian Women and their Art" (PhD diss., University of Oklahoma, 1993), 301.
  3. ^ Rennard Strickland, "Where Have All the Blue Deer Gone? Depth and Diversity in Postwar Indian Painting," American Indian Art, Spring 1985, 36-45.