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Moon of Black Chokecherries Woodcut

Dawn Senior, of Moonhorse Art Studio, has worked in a wide variety of media including charcoal, oil paintings, woodcuts, gouaches, claybords and scratchboards. Her artwork, especially her woodcuts, are a 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 woodcuts.

Moon of Black Chokecherries Woodcut - Dawn's Native American-inspired woodcut illustrates the impact of Native American legend and Native American myth on her artwork.

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Limited Edition of 100
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 woodcut below.

Around August, the wild chokecherries ripen to a rich black luster, ready for picking by humans and wingeds, and four-leggeds alike. (The Lakota have no word in their language for "animal," but call every being a People, and a Nation. They might say "The Buffalo Nation," or "The Prairie Dog People.")

In the fall the pronghorn antelope start courting, and you can see a buck chasing a doe around and around in great, swift circles. It must be one of the most exhilarating sights in life, full of joy. Sometimes the half-grown young get caught up in the excitement, though a bit confused and nervous about the whole thing.

The scene in Dawn's woodcut is presented from many points of view: from above the red-tailed hawk and some antelope, eye-level to other antelope and the prairie dogs, and perhaps a lizard's-eye-view of each cactus and yucca.

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