Moses Stranger Horse

Moses Stranger Horse (1890–1941) was a Brulé Lakota realist painter from the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

Background A Brulé Lakota from Rosebud, Stranger Horse was born outside of Wood, South Dakota in 1890. In 1911, he was taken to Pennsylvania to attend Carlisle Indian Industrial School. There he received art lessons from Angel De Cora, the accomplished Ho-Chunk painter, whose philosophy was that Native peoples could both maintain cultural pride and a place in mainstream society through art.

Stranger Horse joined the American Expeditionary Force and was stationed in Paris during World War I. Native cowboys and ranch hands were also favorite subjects.

Death and legacy Stranger Horse died in 1941 at the Rosebud Reservation. and the Journey Museum in Rapid City, South Dakota. "With all the progressive adventuresomeness inherent in the character of the western Sioux, Stranger Horse took the first bold step of any modern Sioux artists to intentionally and completely master what was still the foreign art forms of the white man."

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