Dust Storm ~ Rance Hood (Commanche)

Lawrence (Rance) Hood or “Au Tup Ta” (Yellow Hair) is a Comanche Indian from Lawton, Oklahoma. He paints for his ancestors and strives to keep the old ways alive. “My grandfather taught me the peyote religion and told me stories about great Comanche warriors of the past. When my grandfather passed away he handed me down the medicine. I sleep in a room full of it and I pray a lot. Every morning and every evening, in the medicine ways. A lot of times I get visions when I’m sleeping. When I work around medicine I’ll get a vision or a title and I’ll see the scene and paint it.”

[I have also posted a painting by Kent Monkman today, called “Wild Flowers of North America”, that some might find a bit off-color. If your filter for “offensive” images is set, you will have to temporarily turn it off in order to see that post.]