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Parker Boyiddle, Jr. is a Kiowa / Wichita / Delaware / Chicksaw painter from Chickasha, Oklahoma, who has played a pivotal role in mid-20th century Native American art.
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Background
Boyiddle was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma on 21 July 1947, the son of Thamar and Parker Boyiddle. He died in Colorado on December 4th, 2007.
Education
Boyiddle was educated at Classen High School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. While at The Institute he studied under famed Indian artists Allan Houser and Fritz Scholder. In 1995 returned to IAIA as an artist-in-residence. He was in the Air Force from 1967 to 1971. He also attended Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona. He was a muralist, sculptor and painter, who began his artistic career actively and professionally in 1977. He worked on the Tree of Life at Disney World's Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida and had exhibitions in Paris, Los Angeles, throughout the American West and in South America as well.
Career
Boyiddle was commissioned to paint a mural in The Kiowa Tribal Complex in Carnegie, Oklahoma, along with artists Mirac Creepingbear and Sherman Chaddlesone. The mural depicts the history of the Kiowa tribe from its original home in the Yellowstone territory to its establishment in the Great Plains region of the United States.
Among his other public works is the sculpture "The Hunter" located in Tulsa's Centennial Park. A highly versatile and inventive artist his styles ranged from Art Deco style to a series he called his "fractured" paintings where images started solid in one corner, then, progressing across the canvas became fractured and then morphed into liquid drops.
He is considered one of the more important of Oklahoma's artists. He worked in mixed media of oil, acrylic, watercolor, bronze and clay. His paintings reflect his environment and his ancestral past of Plains Indians that hunted buffalo and lived as nomads as well his vision of a Kiowa living now.