T.C. Cannon Caddo and Kiowa, 1946-1978 Collector # 5 (Man in Wicker Chair), 1975 Oil on canvas A distinguished art collector sits comfortably among his treasures: a landscape painting evocative of Vincent van Gogh, a wicker chair, and a boldly patterned Diné (Navajo) rug. In the portrait at right, a dignified gentleman poses on an antique Chippendale chair similar to examples on display in our galleries. The subjects of these portraits are elderly members of the Kiowa tribe in traditional dress— moccasins, leggings, and trade cloth shirts —yet they are portrayed in a format typical of portraits of white elites. T.C. Cannon, an artist of Caddo and Kiowa descent, drew on a range of sources — historical photographs of tribal leaders, 18th-century British and American portraits, and the bold and unexpected color combinations of Pop artists like Andy Warhol — to disavow stereotypes of the “vanishing race.” His paintings offer a powerful response to historical works— including some on view in the MFA galleries — that erase Indigenous people from the nation’s history and landscape. The Peterson Family Collection