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Allan Houser

Allan Capron (Haozous) Houser (1914 - 1994) was active/lived in New Mexico, California.  Allan Houser is known for Indian figure sculpture, painting.

Born on the family farm near in Apache, Oklahoma, Allan Houser became one of the Southwest's most famous and financially successful twentieth-century sculptors, known for his abstract Indian subjects.  In his book, Masters of American Sculptors, Donald Martin Reynolds referred to Houser, who was Chiricahua Apache, as the "patriarch of American Indian sculptors. . . .Through his prodigious output and a generation of students and followers, Houser has been a formidable force in shaping contemporary Indian sculpture". (205).  In 1993, the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, opened a sculpture garden in his honor.

With close ties to Arizona, Houser was the grandson of the chief who served as Geronimo's interpreter and a great nephew of the Apache Chief, Geronimo.  Houser had the Apache name of "Haozous", translated in English as 'The Sound of Pulling Roots'.

At age 15, in 1929, he left high school to help his father run the farm,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5171 characters.]  Artist bio

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