ARNOLD FRIBERG, R.S.A.
The Native American Collection
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	1984 Release. This tribute to the great Apache chief is one of Friberg's most sought-after secondary-market prints. It is also an example of exactly what makes Friberg's horses considered some of the greatest in art. "I want to show the bones, the tendons, the muscles, and the blood vessels." This diligent attention results in such stunning representations as Geronimo's mount. The great saguaro cactus emerges from memories of Friberg's boyhood in the Arizona desert.
	1986 Release.Arnold Friberg has always felt a deep respect for Native American cultures both in the U.S. and in Canada. After all of his work with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada feels like his second home. It has been a great honor to him that Native Americans visiting his studio have often commented that his paintings have "strong medicine." He views When the Land Was His as a companion to his equestrian portrait of Prince Charles, "Each represents royalty in his own domain." Not an action picture, this is a tribute to the beauty and ingenuity of Indian craftsmanship, achieved with simple, available native materials.
	1990 Release. From first-hand observations of Indian camp life, Friberg here has recorded many rich authentic details of the teepees - stakes, lacing, pins, medicine bundles, painted designs, and the orderly interlocking of lodge poles over the smoke holes. Also stretched hides and meat drying racks, all giving a complete picture of a people at home with nature. The small girl in the teepee doorway looks with admiration upon the macho brave on his strong horse.

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