The Brinton Museum's Two Leggings War Shirt Receives Award as one of Wyoming's Top 10 Most Significant Artifacts in 2016! The Brinton Museum Two Leggings War Shirt Russell and Edward Borein, to name just a few. American Indians are also the central subject of many of The Brinton Museum’s Western Art paintings, drawings and etchings, as well as sculpture by Frederic Remington, Charles M.
After being on loan to the Art Institute of Chicago for the last 40 years, it was gifted to the museum by the Foundation for the Preservation of American Indian Art and Culture.Ĭurrently on exhibit in the John and Adrienne Mars Gallery of American Indian Art, To Honor The Plains Nations features more than 60 pieces of this extensive gift, plus several special selections from The Bradford Brinton Memorial Collection and, in addition, several newly acquired items.Īmerican Indian Art & Artifacts throughout the museum include blankets and robes, war bonnets, painted war shirts, beaded dresses, jewelry, horse gear, blanket strips and more. The Goelet and Edith Gallatin Collection of American Indian Art continues to build on this mission of collecting and exhibiting the finest of American Indian and especially Plains Nations’ art and artifacts. In the 1920s and 1930s Bradford Brinton collected American Indian art and artifacts from the Plains to the Southwest and to the Northwest Coast, from baskets to beaded dresses, Navajo weavings to painted parfleche, headdresses and hide shirts to Hopi and Chilquat robes. The Brinton Museum was established as an institution dedicated to American Indian Art & Culture, as well as to American Fine and Decorative Art. American Indian Art at The Brinton Museum
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