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Featured Mural Locations

Stephen Mopope Murals
US Postal Service
120 SW 1st Street
Anadarko, OK 73005-3412

Acee Blue Eagle Murals
US Postal Service
38 N. Main Street
Coalgate, OK 74538-2833

US Postal Service
120 East Oak Avenue
Seminole, OK 74868 
Postal Resource

Native American Studies


 

                      
 
     The Native American Portfolio explores the lives of two Native American artists, Stephen Mopope and Acee Blue Eagle. Their artistic achievements and commitment to the preservation of Native culture in the context of historic and political events at the end of the 19th century makes them critically important in the history of Native American art. The lives of Mopope and Blue Eagle span the crossroads between the end of the great Native civilizations when they abandoned centuries of independence and were forced into life on a reservation. 

    The Native American Portfolio is a research tool of exceptional beauty and value that will enhance the curricula of any Native American Studies department. The portfolio provides insight into the personal and artistic lives of the two men and is accompanied by rare reproductions of their remarkable Postal murals created for the United States government during the Great Depression. There are compelling essays on Native American art and its role in Modern American Art and on the history of the New Deal murals. There are two lengthy biographical essays that explore how these men struggled to perpetuate a living, vital culture rather than document a fallen civilization.

   The Native American Portfolio is created under a grant of rights by the United States Postal Service in an effort to provide the American people with access to the masterful works of American art created by the American government and provide a greater understanding of our American culture which begins with the Native civilizations.