Consigning the works of Earl Biss

2. The renowned Native American artist Earl Biss was born in 1947 in Renton, Washington.  An enrolled member of the Crow Nation, Biss spent his early childhood on the Crow Reservation in Montana with his grandmother before moving to live with his father on the Yakima Reservation in Washington.  He grew up in the soaring landscapes of the American West where he developed an abiding fascination and appreciation for tribal histories, traditional stories, and mountainous landscapes.

3.  In the 1960s, Biss attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe where he studied under Fritz Scholder, Charles Loloma, and Allan Houser.  Continuing his education, Biss studied in Paris and San Francisco before returning to Santa Fe.  Biss moved his studio many times over the course of his career, living in Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, and California. The colorful artwork of Earl Biss is a testament to his skill as a painter: working in the delicate realm of figurative abstraction with a wet-on-wet technique, Biss’s work pushes the boundaries of representation and the capacity of oil paints.  Many of his luminous, expressive canvases were painted in extreme creative sessions lasting for days at a time.