Painting by Choctaw Artist Doug Maytubbie

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Painting by Douglas Maytubbie (1940-present), Choctaw
A log cabin and a one-room school house are a part of the heritage of Native American artist, Doug Maytubbie.  He was born August 15, 1940 in Battiest, in the southeast corner of Oklahoma, on what was historically Choctaw Tribal Reservation lands in what came to be called the Oklahoma Indian Territory in the mid-1800's before statehood.   Like the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Creek Tribes, the Choctaw were removed from their original homelands in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama in the 1830’s by the Indian Removal Act of 1832, which led to the Choctaws own ‘Trail of Tears’.
Maytubbie had been drawing since childhood and was self-taught.  But when he went on to serve in the U.S. Army from 1960 to 1965 he stopped painting.  Eventually he received formal art training while attending Eastern Oklahoma State College and Central State University, where he ultimately graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1981.  His paintings depict Choctaw culture both before and after removal from Mississippi a century earlier.
After the Five Tribes moved to Oklahoma they eventually developed extensive tribal independence, infrastructure, and self-rule.  This painting clearly depicts Choctaw tribal police on the trail of a desperado on their own reservation where they had their own tribal courts and autonomous authority.
This painting has been professionally framed with double archival matting and backing.  The exterior framed dimensions: 15.25 by 20.25 inches.  The
visible
image: 9.25 by 14.25 inches.
Maytubbie’s work has been exhibited in over a dozen states from California to Louisiana, as well as across the Atlantic in England and Germany.  His paintings are in collections at Eastern Oklahoma State College, University of Oklahoma, Choctaw Tribal Headquarters, Southern Plains Indian Museum, as well as museums in Illinois and New York.