BOOKS & PERIODICALS
Agogino, George A. “Oscar Howe: Sioux Artist.” Plains Anthropologist: Journal of the Plains Anthropological Society. 32, no. 116 (1987): 197-202.
Agogino, George, and Heidi Howe. “Oscar Howe, Sioux Indian Artist.” The Masterkey. 33, no. 3 (1959): 113-119.
Amiotte, Arthur. “An Appraisal of Sioux Arts.” An Illustrated History of the Arts of South Dakota. Ed. Arthur Huseboe. Sioux Falls, SD: Center for Western Studies, Augustana College, 1989. 109-146.
Anthes, Bill. Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
Archuleta, Margaret, and Rennard Strickland. Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century. Phoenix: Heard Museum, 1991.
Archuleta, Margaret, et al. The Native American Fine Arts Movement: A Resource Guide. Phoenix: Heard Museum, 1996.
Benes, Rebecca C. Native American Picture Books of Change: The Art of Historic Children’s Editions. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2004.
Berlo, Janet Catherine, ed. Plains Indian Drawings, 1865-1935. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996.
Berlo, Janet C., and Ruth B. Phillips. Native North American Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Bernstein, Bruce, and W. Jackson Rushing. Modern by Tradition: American Indian Painting in the Studio Style. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1995.
Broadd, Harry A. “Oscar Howe: Breaking Away from Santa Fe.” Arts & Activities. 94, no. 2 (October 1983): 29-32, 48.
Broder, Patricia Janis. American Indian Painting and Sculpture. New York: Abbeville Press, 1981.
Brody, J.J. Indian Painters and White Patrons. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971.
Bucko, S.J., Raymond A. “When Does a Cactus Become an Angry Buffalo?: Traditional Games of the Lakotas.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 57, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 14-31.
Burnett, Maxine. “Oscar Howe, Indian Artist.” The South Dakotan. 1, no. 2 (1970).
Cerney, Jan. Mitchell’s Corn Palace. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2004.
Clark, Ann. Bringer of the Mystery Dog. Lawrence: Haskell Institute, 1943.
Contemporary Sioux Painting. Rapid City, SD: U.S. Department of Interior, 1970.
Day, John. “Arthur Amiotte and Oscar Howe: Sympathy and Divergence.” Arthur Amiotte Retrospective Exhibition: Community and Diversity. Ed. John A. Day. Pine Ridge, SD: The Heritage Center, Inc., Red Cloud Indian School, 2001. 19-24.
Day, John A. “Oscar Howe: A Master Revisited.” South Dakota Magazine. 12, no. 2 (July-August 1996): 18-27.
Day, John A., and Margaret Quintal. “Oscar Howe: Father of the New Native American Art.” Southwest Art. 14, no. 1 (June 1984): 52-60.
Dean, Roscoe, M.D. “Who am I?” South Dakota Heritage. 14, no. 1 (centennial Series 1): 30-40.
Dockstader, Frederick J. “Oscar Howe and the Liberation of Indian Art.” The Gilcrease Magazine of American History and Art. 4, no. 4 (1982): 19-25.
_____. “The Revolt of Trader Boy: Oscar Howe and Indian Art.” American Indian Art Magazine. 8, no. 3 (summer 1983): 42-51.
Dockstader, Fredrick J., ed. Oscar Howe: A Retrospective; Catalouge Raisonnè. Tulsa: Thomas Gilcrease Museum Association, 1982.
Douglas, Fredric H., and Rene d’Harnoncourt. Indian Art of the United States. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1941.
Dunn, Dorothy. “Oscar Howe: The Studio of Painting, Santa Fe Indian School.” El Palacio. 67, no. 1 (1960): 16-27.
Dunn, Dorothy. “Oscar Howe: Sioux Artist.” El Palacio. 64, nos. 5-6 (May-June 1957): 167-173.
Eldridge, Laurie. “Dorothy Dunn and the Art Education of Native Americans: Continuing the Dialogue.” Studies in Art Education. 42, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 318-332.
Ewers, John Canfield. Plains Indian Painting: A Description of an Aboriginal American Art. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1939.
Feder, Norman. American Indian Art. New York: Harry N. Adams, 1965.
Forsyth, Susan. Representing the Massacre of American Indians at Wounded Knee, 1890-2000. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.
Garmhausen, Winona. History of Indian Art Education in Santa Fe: The Institute of American Indian Arts with Historical Background, 1890 to 1962. Santa Fe: Sunstone press, 1988.
Gritton, Joy L. The Institute of American Indian Arts: Modernism and U.S. Indian Policy. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.
Gritton, Joy. “Cross-Cultural Education vs. Modernist Imperialism: The Institute of American Indian Arts.” Art Journal. 51, no. 3 (Autumn 1992): 28-35.
Highwater, Jamake. Song from the Earth: American Indian Painting. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976.
Highwater, Jamake. The Sweet Grass Lives On: Fifty Contemporary North American Indian Artists. New York: Lippincott & Cromwell, 1980.
Hoover, Herbert T. and Larry Zimmerman, eds. South Dakota Leaders: from Pierre Choteau, Jr., to Oscar Howe. Vermillion: University of South Dakota Press, 1989.
Howard, James H. “The Tree Dweller Cults of the Dakota.” The Journal of American Folklore. 68, no. 268 (1955): 169-74.
Howe, Heidi. “Dakota.” The American-German Review. (June-July 1961): 10-12.
Howe, Oscar. “Theories and Beliefs – Dakota.” South Dakota Review. 2, no. 2 (1969).
Howe, Oscar. Oscar Howe: Artist of the Sioux. 1969.
Howe, Oscar. Oscar Howe: Artist. Vermillion: University of South Dakota, 1974 [rev. ed. 2004].
Jacobson, Oscar B. North American Indian Costumes. 2 vols. Nice, France: C. Szwedzicki, 1952.
Jacobson, Oscar B., and Jeanne d’Uncel. American Indian Painters. Nice, France: C. Szwedzicki, 1950.
Ladner, Mildred D. “Oscar Howe: Master at Breaking Shackles.” Art West. 5, no. 6 (October-November 1982): 100-102.
Lester, Patrick D. The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters. Tulsa: SIR Publications, 1995.
McKinney, Kathleen. “An Interview with Heidi Howe.” The Prairie Winds. (1988): 22-33.
Miller, Mark. “His Paints May Save a Dying Past.” Sioux City Sunday Journal [Sioux City, Iowa] 8 November 1959.
Milton, John R. Oscar Howe, The Story of an American Indian. Minneapolis: Dillon Press, 1972.
Milton, John R., ed. The American Indian Speaks. Vermillion: Dakota Press, 1969.
Monson, Karen. “The Rise and Fall of a Native American Genius.” Phoenix Magazine. December 1982.
Ostler, Jeffrey. The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Parsons, Jim. “Oscar Howe: More than an ‘Indian’ Artist.” Picture Magazine. September 5, 1976.
Pennington, Robert. Oscar Howe: Artist of the Sioux. Sioux Falls: Dakota Territory Centennial Committee, 1961.
Raabe, Martha. The Little Lost Sioux. Chicago: Albert Whitman, Co. 1942.
Reno, Dawn E. Cotemporary Native American Artists. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Alliance Publishing, 1995.
Schrader, Robert. The Indian Arts and Crafts Board: An Aspect of New Deal Indian Policy. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983.
Sharples, Riva J. "In the Presence of Greatness." South Dakota Magazine. (November-December 2008): 34-41.
Silberman, Arthur. One Hundred Years of Native American Painting. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Museum of Art, 1980.
Skaug, Julius. Mobridge Murals. N.d.
Snodgrass King, Jeanne. “Oscar Howe: Power, Strength, and Individualism.” Four Winds. 3, no. 2 (Autumn 1982): 8-15.
Snodgrass King, Jeanne. “The Preeminence of Oscar Howe.” Oscar Howe: A Retrospective Exhibition; Catalouge Raisonnè. Ed. Fredrick Dockstader. Tulsa: Thomas Gilcrease Museum Association, 1982.
Snodgrass, Jeanne O. American Indian Painters: A Biographical Directory. New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1968.
Soladay, Mildred. Oscar Howe: Artist of the Middle Border. Mitchell: Mitchell Printing, 1968.
South Dakota Writer’s Project, Works Progress Administration. Legends of the Mighty Sioux. Chicago: Albert Whitman, Co., 1941.
Wade, Edwin L., and Rennard Strickland. Magic Images: Contemporary Native American Art. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.
Welch, Eddie. “Bridging Cultures Abroad: Oscar Howe’s American Specialist Tour.” South Dakota History. 37, no. 3 (Fall 2007): 185-208.
Whalen, John W. “Oscar Howe: Artist of the Sioux.” The Dakotan. (Spring 1968): 10-13.
White, Mark Andrew. “Oscar Howe and the Transformation of Native American Art.” American Indian Art Magazine. 23, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 36-43.
Wyckoff, Lydia L., ed. Visions and Voices: Native American Paintings from the Philbrook Museum of Art. Tulsa: Philbrook Museum of Art, 1996.
MA/MFA THESES
Mitchell, Elaine. “Oscar Howe, Sioux Artist: A biographical, Cultural, and Stylistic Analysis.” M.A. thesis, University of New Mexico, 1996.
Nygard, Travis E., “Oscar Howe and the Metaphorical Monarchy of Maize: Indigenism and Power in the Mitchell Corn Palace Panels, 1948-1971.” M.A. thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2005.
Spinar, Melvin F. “Oscar Howe: Artist of the Dakota Sioux.” MFA thesis, University of Iowa, 1966.
Welch, Eddie. “A Model of Assimilation: The Pierre Indian School, 1891-1928.” M.A. thesis, University of South Dakota, 2006.
FILMS/ VIDEOS
Oscar Howe: An American Master. John Haydock. University of South Dakota, 1989.
Oscar Howe: The Sioux Painter. Joan and Sanford Gray. University of South Dakota, 1973.
This is Your Life. 1960.
INTERVIEWS
Howe, Oscar. Personal Interview. 3 April 1954. South Dakota Oral History Project (SDOHP) Tape #99. South Dakota oral History Center, Institute of American Indian Studies, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota.
Howe, Oscar. Personal Interview. American Indian Research Project (AIRP), Tape # 650. March 1971. South Dakota Oral History Center, Institute of American Indian Studies, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota.
Howe, Oscar. Self-Interview. 12 July 1977. American Indian Research Project (AIRP), Tape # 1044. South Dakota Oral History Center, Institute of American Indian Studies, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota.
Website
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