by Susan Hartline
print 4" x 6" 1
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UNDAUNTED
by Susan Hartline
print 8" x 10" 1
(found a home 2014)
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UNDAUNTED
by Susan Hartline
print 8" x 10" 2
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UNDAUNTED
by Susan Hartline
print 8" x 10" 3
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UNDAUNTED
by Susan Hartline
5" x 7" print # 1
original painting 11" x 14" 02-21-2014
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Found a home May 31, 2014
UNDAUNTED
by Susan Hartline
11" x 14" print # 1 06-30-2014
original painting 11" x 14" 02-21-2014
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Found a home May 31, 2014
by Susan Hartline
5" x 7" print # 1
original painting 11" x 14" 02-21-2014
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Found a home May 31, 2014
by Susan Hartline
11" x 14" print # 1 06-30-2014
original painting 11" x 14" 02-21-2014
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Found a home May 31, 2014
Many portraits of Native Americans, printed in the dun Sepia used in early black and white photography to mimic color, succeeded rather more at profiling the image of a defeated and bitter warrior who, left with no outlet for the emotions which roiled within simply stood, back to the wall, in stoic resistance of the daunting forces washing across the lives and lands they had known and knew no more.
Proud and unafraid to die with the land they fearlessly lived with.
With "Undaunted" Sue has brought forth the image of one who has yet to see the terrible plague of progress sweep across a world out of time...
This Lakota Souix stands, proud and undefeated. Sure and certain of his stance and his place in this life, the Granite cliff at his back, not a trap, simply a backdrop in the scene which exhibits the solidity of the mountains and complements the strength of the warrior.
...and he bears no shame at the feminine softness of his features which he allows to show in the directness of his gaze. Within lives the spirit of the man, the husband, the father, the brother and the son. Without is the face of one who knows love.
Still, not painted into the portrait one can see, there is a darkness also about this man. He wears the insignia of the warrior but, needing none to demonstrate to others the power he commands, holds no weapon in visible threat...but, without the image on the canvas, at his right side lies the darkness, a part of him not flaunted in the light for the artist to capture, but demonstrated by it's absence and made more certain by a second gaze into the eyes...
...there is a darkness within as well...
--Doug L.
