Plate VIII: Bull

Artist

Carl Beam (Canadian, 1943 – 2005)

Date

1990s

Medium

Screenprint

Dimensions

Image : 14 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. (36.2 x 29.85 cm)
Sheet : 19 x 12 1/2 in. (48.26 x 31.75 cm)

Credit Line

Hope College Collection

Object Number

2021.13.2

Label

Sitting Bull was a 19^th-century Hunkpapa Lakota chief who appears frequently in Carl Beam’s art as a symbol of Native American strength and resistance to white culture.