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The Legend of the Lame Rabbit - Native American-inspired painting

Dawn Senior-Trask, of Moonhorse Art Studio, has worked in a wide variety of media including charcoal, oil paintings, woodcuts, gaouches, claybords and scratchboards. Her artwork, especially her oil paintings, are a unique way of looking at the memories and culture of the West -- memories and reflections of the lifestyles this western artist has experienced during the many years she has lived in a log cabin near Saratoga, Wyoming.

As evidenced in her oil paintings, Dawn is greatly influenced by Native American art. She lived among the Navaho and Hopi on the Arizona deserts for five years as a teenager, and has also spent time on the Rosebud and Wind River Reservations with the Lakota, and Arapaho tribes. Native American legends and Native American myth are a great inspiration on her artwork, especially her oil paintings.

The Legend of the Lame Rabbit - Dawn's Native American-inspired oil painting illustrates the impact of Native American legend and Native American myth on her artwork.

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Print available: On 13 x 19 watercolor paper (maximum image size 12 x 18). Price is $25 and shipping $5.

More information about this Native American-inspired oil painting below.

This oil painting is a study for one of the "Lakota Moons" series of woodcut illustrations.  It brings together many experiences of Dawn's, including hearing a Lakota story about a kind woman who carried Lame Rabbit on her back.  Dawn was also inspired by a walk she took high on the Sagebrush Plateau east of her cabin in the midst of a harsh winter.

After almost a mile of difficult walking through deep, crusty snow, she felt relieved when she came to a well-packed trail.  She walked along it for a while, assuming migrating deer and antelope had made it, until she paused for breath and took a good look at the tracks.  Jackrabbits!  Astonished, she tried to guess how many jackrabbits it had taken to pack such a wide, deep, trail.  Hundreds, perhaps!  She looked ahead, and her eyes followed the trail for miles up the foothills toward the mountains.  The thought of all those vulnerable prey animals running so far through open country rife with coyotes, owls, eagles, hawks, bobcats and even the occasional mountain lion, amazed her, and inspired her to paint this scene, in honor of the jackrabbits.

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