Native American Art

Judith Lowry: Welgatim’s Song (2001)

The painting Welgatim’s Song, is an example of how Judith Lowry uses art to capture and record the Native American oral and musical traditions with which she was raised.  Lowry’s father was mixed Maidu and Washoe and Lowry uses the bright colors, clear details, and interesting scale of her paintings to illustrate the legends of his history.  Her paintings tell stories in the vivid way she and many other Native Americans heard and still hear legends as they pass from generation to generation.  Welgatim’s Song is Lowry’s way to tell the story in a visual way for many to appreciate.