James Bama 'Pow Wow Singer' Smallwork
Pow-wow participants pride themselves on the finest of regalia, particularly for the dances and parades. In their workday lives, the participants may be clerks in a supermarket or gas station attendants. For one day each year, however, they are resplendent in buckskin and beadwork, in bright feathers and blankets more colorful than were known by the ancestors they revere and whose image they set out to create. This evocative piece follows on the heels of Bama's wildly successful Pow-Wow Dancer, which is Sold Out at Publisher.
Greenwich Workshop Fine Art SmallWorks™ Giclée Canvas:
limited to 75 s/n.
11"w x 11"h.
April 2008
Price: £125.00
James Bama 'Buffalo in a Storm'
Ask James Bama why he went into Western art and he will tell you quite plainly: he didn’t. “Norman Rockwell lived in New England and so he painted small town scenes and harbors. I happen to live out West, so I paint the Indians, ranchers and landscapes I see.” Bama’s portraits of today’s denizens of the West are thoroughly modern, but their occupations, dress and spirit echo those of their predecessors centuries ago.
More than any other animal, the buffalo embodies the rugged tenacity required to survive on the frontier.The day Bama encountered this buffalo, the snow was fourteen inches deep and the animal’s coat and hooves were crusted with ice, but still the animal ventured on.This evocative winter scene follows in the footsteps of the immensely successful Chuck Wagon in the Snow; Old Saddle in the Snow and Old Sod House.
Buffalo in Storm,
by James Bama
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Image size:
25"w x 14"h.
Edition Size:100
Published from the artist's original work.
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Price: £340.00
James Bama 'Young Indian Dancer'
Greenwich Workshop Fine Art
SmallWorks™ Giclée Canvas:
limited to 75 s/n.
9" w x 12" h.
September 2007
Price: £140.00
James Bama 'Pow Wow Dancer'
“This pow-wow dancer and his wife were hired to dance on Native American Day at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. The museum staff told me about this great-looking guy. He agreed to pose for me and I photographed him right in front of the museum.”
James Bama’s modern realism approaches the larger-than-life romance of the West from a new angle. The subjects of his portraits are real people, doing real work, with the history of generations past written in their faces and the surrounding landscapes.
Image size: 15"w x 25"h.
Edition Size:100
Published from the artist's original work.
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Price: £350.00
James Bama 'Black Elk´s Great Grandson'
Clifton DeSerca, a Sioux, lives and works in the modern world but has strong ties to the last days of the free-roaming horseback Native American of the plains. His great-grandfather was Black Elk, a Sioux holy man whose autobiography is considered one of the most important pieces of Native American literature. As a young man, Black Elk participated in the battle of the Little Big Horn. In his older years, he told his story to John G. Neihardt who translated it into the classic Black Elk Speaks. DeSerca serves his people by being involved in a reservation outreach program working with alcoholics. He is portrayed here wearing a Sioux headdress and a historic shirt from the trading-post period.
Image size: 20"w x 20"h.
Edition Size:100
Published from the artist's original work.
Price: £490.00
James Bama 'Contemporary Sioux Indian'
The distinctive portraits of James Bama have earned him the respect of art collectors and critics worldwide. The focus of Contemporary Sioux Indian is Oglala Sioux Wendy Irving, a modern-day Indian whose choker necklace, ribbon shirt and braids wrapped in otter skin indicate that he clings to the traditions of his people, yet finds himself caught between two worlds. To give the painting a contemporary flavor Bama placed him against a peeling wall that warns, "No Parking, Violators Towed Away," suggesting that the Indian does not fit in the white man's affluent neighborhood." These are sophisticated young Indians, very aware of what is going on," says Bama." They are not about to sit back passively and endure injustices. They seem limited in what they can do other than become educated and find a niche in the white man's world where their old ways have been accorded little or no place."
Order period ends August 15, 2006.
Edition not to exceed 150.
Signed by James Bama.
30"w x 20"h.
Price: £620.00
James Bama 'Waiting for the Grand Entry'
Every rodeo begins with a grand entry as the contestants and other riders follow the flag bearers in a serpentine course across the arena. At a junior rodeo in Cody, artist James Bama spotted Kenny Claybaugh waiting for the grand entry and was struck by the colourful combination of the yellow slicker, American flag and the dark glasses. Regarded as one of the sport's top pickup men, Claybaugh worked the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada, among many others. It is the pickup man's duty to rescue a rider from a pitching bronc after the required seconds have elapsed and the horn is blown to signal a completed ride. It is a highly responsible task demanding skill and nerve, as a misstep can result in a rider's falling and perhaps being trampled or slammed against an ungiving fence. The pickup horse must also be well trained so that it does not fear moving in close to the bronc's flying hoofs and does not shy away as pickup man and bronc rider reach for one another.
Image size: 23"w x 18"h.
Edition Size:150
Published from the artist's original work.
Price: £555.00
James Bama 'Buck Norris - Cross Sabres Ranch'
"Wyoming, the Cowboy State, conjures images of wide open spaces, cattle ranches, wild mustangs and rugged men in boots and Stetsons," says artist James Bama."I had known Buck Norris for many years, he was a strong, quiet man who worked with his parents, owners of the oldest ranch on the North Fork of the Shoshone River west of Cody.The day I finally visited this cowboy and trapper to use him as a model, it
snowed three feet. With the snow filling up the corral around him, he carried the tools of his trade: a leather saddle fitted with saddle bags, fringe-decorated bridle, coiled lariat and silver-dollar size spurs.These, the clothes on his back, and, of course, his horse, were sometimes the only possessions a cowboy of the Old West owned."
Image size: 20"w x 20"h.
Edition Size:150
Published from the artist's original work.
Price: £505.00
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James Bama 'Bittin´Up - Rimrock Ranch'
At Wyoming's Rimrock Ranch, cowboys and their horses look much the way they did back in the Wild West of Laramie and Cheyenne. Scouting for portrait models, artist James Bama first met ranch hand Greg Laughen in the summer, when the young man's hat, shirt and jeans were still crisp and new. At the time, Bama offered to take his picture, but the cowboy didn't feel right - he thought he looked too much like a city slicker. By December, Laughen's clothes were broken in enough that he felt ready to be photographed. He was teaching a young buckskin its first lessons in responding to the rein. Shortly, he would lead the horse by its makeshift rope bridle into the corral to prepare him for "bittin' up," taking the bit without rearing its head. Patiently, the ranch hand has taught the buckskin to take the saddle and to keep calm when men approach. Now his student is ready for a new lesson in horse sense.
Image size: 20"w x 20"h.
Edition Size:150
Published from the artist's original work.
June 2005
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