Paul Pletka Oil Portrait of a Native American, Circa 1970

Item Details

Paul Pletka (New Mexico/California, born 1946)
Portrait of Native American warrior holding tomahawk, circa 1970
Oil on canvas
Signed to lower right
Label from The Elaine Horwitch Galleries to verso

‘Paul Pletka is a neo-surrealistic painter inspired by his fascination from early childhood with Native Americans of the Southwest. His style, described as neo-surrealistic, ’is both realistic and deeply spiritual, being highly sensitive to the inner thoughts of Native Americans.’

Paul Pletka was born in southern California in 1946 and currently resides in New Mexico. After high school, he won a scholarship to Arizona State University and then transferred to Colorado State University, but feeling disappointed in his college art training, did not paint seriously until the late 1960s.

His works of art have been exhibited in one-man shows in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Illinois, New York, Kansas and Missouri continuously since 1964. Pletka’s paintings are in more than 40 private and public art collections including the Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA; Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, MO; Mel Pfaelzer Collection, University of Northern Illinois, De Kalb; the Norton Gallery & School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; and the United States Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.’

-Askart.com

Condition

- minor touchups throughout; discolorations to liner; abrasions to frame.

Dimensions

- measures frame; sight measures 39.5" W x 29.5" H.

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Item #

ITMGP19230