VALJEAN HESSING
Valjean Hessing (1934–2006) was a Choctaw painter. Works by Valjean Hessing are available through Trotta-Bono Contemporary, a by-appointment gallery specializing in contemporary Native American art in Santa Monica, California.
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160 Acre Allotment, 10 Acres Tillable
Corn Women
The Echoes of Yesteryear
Untitled (Female Stickballer)
Untitled (Grandmother and Child)
Waiting for Land Assignment...1900
Yesterday Never Returns
- VALJEAN HESSING -
Choctaw, 1934-2006
Valjean McCarty Hessing was a Choctaw painter, who worked in the Bacone flatstyle. Throughout her career, she won 9- awards for her work and was designated a Master Artist by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum in 1976. Her artworks are in collections of the Heard Museum of Phoenix, Arizona; the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma; the Southern Plains Indian Museum in Anadarko, Oklahoma; and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian of Santa Fe, New Mexico, among others.