A wonderful series of 10 drawings from across 4 decades of Brian D. Tripp’s practice, this portfolio provides a wide survey of the various styles, bodies of work, and concerns of one of the major Karuk and American artists of the 20th and 21st Centuries. The set includes examples of Tripp’s newspaper interventions, his stained glass-like drawings, his early geometric iconographic ‘abstractions’, and his collaged drawings which often included aluminum foil, mirror, stones, and wood components.

1. Untitled, (burnt on the cross), undated (1970s), pen on newsprint, 9” x 12”
2. Untitled, (triangular landscape), dated 11/1979, color pencil on onion skin paper, 19” x 24”
3. They Thought A Talk Would Do Him Good, dated pen, 12” x 9.5”
(drawn on an envelope from the U.S. Dept. of Interior, Indian Arts and Crafts Board, addressed to Karuk artist Karen Noble)
4. Those Time Dancing, 1979, pen on paper, 17” x 14”
5. Untitled (Me, Myself and I – with salmon icon), dated 6/117/92, acrylic, marker pen on paper, 16.5” x 12”, mounted on black foam core, 20.5” x 14.5”
6. Untitled (three arrows), undated (1990s?), acrylic, foil, marker pen on paper, 16” x 12”
7. Untitled (rock people), undated (2000s?), marker pen on paper, 17” x 14”
8. Someone Was Killing Our People They All Knew Who It Was, undated (the 2000s?), assemblage painting with foil,
mirror, stones, wood, verso, Comes Around, collage with newsprint, foil, marker, and ink pen, 14.5” x 11.5”
9. Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, collage, acrylic, marker pen, painting on newspaper dated 10/5/2001, 25” x 22”
10. Untitled, (salmon metro), collage and painting on Northern Lights newspaper dated 10/2009, 11.5” x 11”