Background
Jack Hokeah was born in 1901 in western Oklahoma.
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Jack Hokeah
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University of Oklahoma.
Career
Hokeah attend Saint Patrick"s Indian Mission School in Anadarko, Oklahoma, and there he received his first art instruction from Sister Olivia Taylor, a Choctaw nun. Susan Peters, the field matron for the Kiowa agency, arranged for Mistress Willie Baze Lane, an artist from Chickasha, Oklahoma, to provide further art instruction for the young Indians, including Spencer Asah.
Recognizing the talent of some of the young artists, Peters convinced Swedish-American artist Oscar Jacobson, director of the University of Oklahoma"s School of Art, to accept the Kiowa students into a special program at the school.
The included six artists: Spencer Asah, James Auchiah, Jack Hokeah, Stephen Mopope, Lois Smoky and Monroe Tsatoke. In 1926 Asah, Hokeah, Tsatoke, Mopope, and Smoky moved to Norman, Oklahoma and began their art studies at OU. Smoky returned home late in 1927, but Auchiah joined the group that year.
In the 1928, the s debuted in the international fine arts world by participating in the First International Art Exposition in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Doctor Jacobson arranged for their work to be shown in several other countries and for Kiowa Art, a portfolio of pochoir prints and artists" paintings, to be published in France.
Jack Hokeah was an excellent dancer and singer, which competed with painting for his time.
He, alone of the, studied at the Studio in Santa Fe Indian School. In 1930, with Spencer Asah and Stephen Mopope, Hokeah participated in the Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial Dances. He stayed with her family many times in the ensuing decade.
Hokeah"s work can be found in the following public art collections:
Hokeah died in Fort Cobb, Oklahoma on 14 December 1969.
