LITTLE CHIEF Medicine Ponies Painting, gouache and air brush on paper, inscribed signature to lower right reads Little Chief, plaque on matting reads Medicine Ponies by Barthell Little Chief, subject shows two pinto ponies in a strike of lightning. In frame piece measures approx 34 x 27 1/2 in., silver toned metal frame, surface wear to frame, professionally framed, not examined out of frame. Barthell Little Chief is a successful Kiowa artist. He travels throughout the United States to galleries and art shows. Art is not only his passion, it is his livelihood. Little Chief is a professional artist, talented and well versed in his culture as are many Indian artists, but the similarities stop there. His refusal to cross cultures in his artwork has cost him money over the years, but he said he deeply believes in Indian artwork, not artwork about Indians. (Indiancountrytoday.com). Little Chief medicine horses, barthell little Chief, Kiowa art, Native American art, stylized Kiowa art, medicine ponies painting,