Art exhibit returns Winold Reiss portraits to the Blackfeet Reservation
A portrait of Cecile Black Boy titled "Kills Instead" is a part of the “Connections – the Blackfeet and Winold Reiss” exhibit at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Playing cards produced by the Great Northern Railway using the portraits painted by Winold Reiss are part of the new exhibit at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
The works of Victor Pepion, a Blackfeet student of Winold Reiss, are part of the “Connections – the Blackfeet and Winold Reiss” exhibit at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
The 1800s red beaded shirt worn by Turtle in one of his Winold Reiss portraits is one of the items connecting the portraits with their subjects as part of the “Connections – the Blackfeet and Winold Reiss” exhibit at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A portrait of Winold Reiss' longtime friend Turtle hangs as part of the “Connections – the Blackfeet and Winold Reiss” exhibit at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Nine Winold Reiss portraits and other connected artifacts are on display as part of the “Connections – the Blackfeet and Winold Reiss” exhibit at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A portrait of John Two Guns White Calf hangs as part of the “Connections – the Blackfeet and Winold Reiss” exhibit at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A pair of stick dolls is part of the “Connections – the Blackfeet and Winold Reiss” exhibit at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Portraits of Wades in the Water and Julia Wades in the Water, along with Julia's police uniform, are on display as part of the “Connections – the Blackfeet and Winold Reiss” exhibit at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A bandolier bag worn by Wades in the Water is part of the “Connections – the Blackfeet and Winold Reiss” exhibit at the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
For the first time in more than 60 years, the works of Winold Reiss are back on the Blackfeet Reservation, where many of them were created.
Through a collaboration between the Blackfeet Nation, Museum of the Plains Indian, the BNSF Foundation and the Glacier National Park Conservancy, an exhibit of nine of Reiss’ original pastel portraits entitled “Connections – the Blackfeet and Winold Reiss” will be on display in Browning through Oct...
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