Cowboys & Indians

STARR HARDRIDGE

WHEN NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIST STARR HARDRIDGE’S FATHER DIED SIX YEARS AGO, HE REEVALUATED the way he painted. To work his way out of his grief, he approached the canvas with a different style, one influenced by his father’s Muscogee Creek roots — and his own.

What he found was not just a way to mourn the passing of his father, but also a way back to the heritage he’d left behind when he moved away from Oklahoma to the East Coast

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