The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 30, 2026
Holly and Her Kids
1987
(Enrolled member of the Seneca Nation, b. 1945)
Sheet: 78.3 x 56.4 cm (30 13/16 x 22 3/16 in.)
Dudley P. Allen Fund 2024.62
Location: 101A Prints & Drawings
Did You Know?
G. Peter Jemison was the first curator of New York City’s American Indian Community House Gallery, where he worked from 1978 to 1985.Description
This drawing is exemplary of G. Peter Jemison’s use of found material, featuring collaged and hand-colored xeroxed imagery of a woman and her children with drawings of buffaloes in various degrees of finish. For over six decades, Jemison has worked as an artist, curator, and educator in the field of Native art, focusing on found imagery and materials in his own practice. Although his relationship to the family featured in the images is not specified, the figures depicted and the vernacular style of photographs reproduced both relate to his interest in telling the story of Native history through everyday materials and anecdotal stories from family and friends.- ?–2024(K Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- still/emerging: Native American Works on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-June 7, 2026).
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