For your consideration is this pair of framed Winold Reiss Blackfeet Indian Posters. Winold Reiss was born in Germany in 1886. Following in the footsteps of his father, Winold became an artist, studying art in Munich. In 1913, Winold came to the United States with a Romantic Idealism of Native Americans and the vast Western Frontier. 1919 found Winold Reiss in Montana where he befriended Natives in the Blackfoot tribe. He made pastel portrait drawings of many of the Blackfeet he had met. Reiss was able to capture individual traits as well as a high degree of human dignity; his portraits were sensitive and sympathetic depictions. Sometime after 1924, Reiss was commissioned by the Great Northern Railway to paint a series of portraits of Native Americans for a series of calendars. Mr. Reiss enjoyed a long partnership with the railroad, travelling many times to Glacier Park. His works for the railway documented a people in transition and cultivated respect for the Natives. When he died in 1953, the Blackfeet spread his ashes along the Eastern edge of Glacier National Park. These two period posters, circa 1948, were produced by the Great Northern Railway in partnership with Reiss for its "See America First" campaign. The first poster shows a middle aged Native woman, Bird Sings Different, in traditional dress holding a buckskin beaded parfleche bag she had made. The print is bordered on the left and right with pictographs. The pictograph on the left shows a native woman fashioning for herself a garment. In the second series of pictographs depict a native woman building and decorating with paints a teepee. Along the bottom is printed, "Bird Sings Different--Blackfeet Indian Woman--Glacier National Park, Montana/ å© Great Northern RY/ St. Paul, U.S.A." The second print is of a young boy in traditional dress holding a traditional dance wand/ shaker. This is framed by two columns of pictographs depicting a boy participating in a traditional ceremonial dance. When this piece was framed, the title line was covered up. It would read, "Dancing Boy--Blackfeet Indian--Glacier National Park, Montana". It would have a Great Northern copyright date of 1946. Aside from the title of the second print being covered over, these two posters framed under glass are in good condition. The larger of the two measures about 20 3/4" x 22 1/2". For a complete representation of condition and for additional images please call 800-686-4216. It is the buyer‰Ûªs responsibility to view each image and preview the item to determine condition.