John Louis Clarke 11 inch by 14 inch oil on canvas $275  see enlarge image

John Louis Clarke, was born in 1881 and died in 1970. He was the son of Blackfeet tribesman Horace Clarke from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana. He became Deaf at age two from scarlet fever. His Blackfeet name was Cutapuis, meaning “the man who talks not.” All his life, he communicated by writing notes and using sign language and creating art.

John studied art at the Chicago Art Institute for a short time. He was a prolific artist, working with oils, watercolors, clays, charcoals, and even crayons and then became famous working on wood carvings of bears, mountain goats, and other wild animals of the Glacier National Park.