**Originally Listed At $200**

Diane O'Leary (also Opeche-Nah-Se - Comanche/Irish, 1935-2013). "Tali" print, n.d. Edition 222 of 750. Printed by The Morrow Press of Scottsdale, Arizona. Hand signed in pencil at lower right. Edition number handwritten in pencil at lower left. Also signed in plate at lower right. A beautiful composition featuring an indigenous woman holding an infant by Diane O'Leary. The woman is dressed in traditional Comanche clothing and stands in profile with birds, turtles, and stylized cultural motifs in her midst. All is rendered in O'Leary's signature abstract figurative style with a soothing pastel color palette. Size (image): 28.5" L x 19.25" W (72.4 cm x 48.9 cm) Size (sheet): 32.125" L x 24" W (81.6 cm x 61 cm)

About the artist: Diane O'Leary was born in Waco, Texas to a Comanche mother and an Irish father. She was a piano child prodigy and attended Texas Christian University, Bacone College, Harvard University, and Stanford University. Interestingly, O'Leary studied nursing, Baroque literature, and archaeology in college rather than majoring in fine art. This said, she did study art under Dick West while at Bacone College and became a medical artist while working as a nurse.

Diane O'Leary's works are held at the permanent collections of Berne Museum in Berne, Switzerland; the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado; the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York, New York; the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona; the Museum of American Indian, Heye Foundation in New York; the Mitchell Indian Museum at Kendall College in Evanston, Illinois; the Millicent Rogers Foundation Museum in Taos, New Mexico; the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma; the Peabody Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Stanford University in California and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Provenance: private Mesa, Arizona, USA collection

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Overall excellent. Hand signed in pencil at lower right. Edition number handwritten in pencil at lower left. Also signed in plate at lower right. Comes with protective sleeve from Morrow Press.