Artist: Woody Crumbo (1912-1989)

Title: “A Starry Night”

Media: serigraph

Size: 13” x 17”

Frame: 18” x 22”

Price: $600

Note on back: “appears to be original water color by Woody Crumbo, Okla artist & teacher at Bacone College, Muskegee, Oklahoma.” This is a print, but only one other example where the baby deer is ALSO blue (otherwise brown) is part of Oklahoma State Art Collection.

In Native American lore, the blue deer represents a spiritual guide, one that is transformed through an extended pilgrimage into a hallucinogenic cactus called peyote.

Crumbo was a citizen of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Besides painting, Crumbo was a professional dancer and played Native American flute. He was also an independent prospector in New Mexico in the late 1950s and found one of the largest beryllium veins in the nation, valued at millions of dollars.[5]

His paintings are held by several major museums, including the Smithsonian Institution and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with a large collection at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.