Johnny Moore

Background

Johnny Moore Tiger, Junior. was born on February 13, 1940 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

Career

He attended Chilocco Indian School and graduated from Muskogee Central High School in 1958. After graduation, he served in the United States Air Force. As a young man Tiger loved pin striping hot rods but moved towards fine arts

HIs paintings illustrated the oral history of his tribes, and he painting scenes such as a tribal gathering, stomp dances, or medicine men healing the sick, based on his own experiences.

In 1959, he enrolled at Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma to study art under the legendary Southern Cheyenne painter Dick West. After winning numerous major art awards by the late 1970s, he became a full-time artist.

The Five Civilized Tribes Museum declared Johnny a Master Artist in 1982. Tiger was also a well-known sculptor.

Johnny Tiger Junior. died on August 5, 2015.

Funeral services were held at the First Baptist Church in Eufaula, Oklahoma, and he was interred at the Greenwood Cemetery in Eufaula.

Achievements

• He received many major awards and produced several bronze pieces.

Connections

classmate:

David East. Williams