Daniel Owen Stolpe

Daniel Owen Stolpe (November 14, 1939 – December 12, 2018) was an American artist, painter, sculptor, master printmaker, fine artist book publisher, poetry book illustrator, and the founder of Native Images Editions, Santa Cruz, California.

Stolpe devoted his entire life to exploring the traditional spiritual and aesthetic culture of Native Americans and bringing that tradition to renewed contemporary expression in dramatic and expressive monotypes, woodcuts, serigraphs, etchings, and paintings.

Life and work Daniel Owen Stolpe was born on November 14, 1939, in Los Angeles, California. As a student in the early 1960s at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, They had obtained a press designed and built by Stolpe.

Stolpe was associated with artists such as Don LaViere Turner, Leonard Edmondson, Dutch artist Nic Jonk, James Joe, and Ambrose Teasawito. He contributed his own artwork to notable publications, such as William Everson's "Canticle to the Waterbirds," and William Shipley's translations of Maidu Indian myths recounted around 1900 by Maidu storyteller Hanc'Ibyjim to Harvard University anthropologist and linguist Roland Dixon and published as Love and Death by Native Images in 2004.

Over the span of 20 years, Stolpe exhibited internationally in Japan, Spain, Oaxaca, Mexico, and Mexico City. He worked with master printer Raul Soruco, and displayed his art at Soruco's Galeria Gràfica in Oaxaca from 1994 to 1996.

Stolpe's works are represented in many collections, including the Fogg Art Museum, the Grunwald Collection at University of California, Los Angeles, the Portland Art Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution. The Special Collections Library at the University of California, Santa Cruz has an endowment and an archive dedicated to the collection of Stolpe's art.

Stolpe lived most of his life in the United States, except for a few years in Canada and two years spent with the Native American Swinomish Tribe on their reservation in the state of Washington.

He resided in Santa Cruz, California, starting in 1970.