Sitting Bull from the Cowboys

Andy Warhol’s *Sitting Bull from the Cowboys* reframes an iconic Indigenous leader through the artist’s unmistakable Pop lens, exposing how American history is constructed, circulated, and consumed. Borrowing the visual grammar of advertising and mass media, Warhol translates photographic source material into crisp, high-contrast silkscreen layers, where saturated color fields and abrupt tonal shifts heighten immediacy and drama.

The work’s bold contours and graphic flatness lend Sitting Bull a monumental presence while simultaneously questioning the reductive mythologies of the “Wild West.” Striking in scale and impact, it stands as both portrait and cultural critique.

Andrew "Andy" Warhol ( ; born Andrew Warhola Jr. ; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist and filmmaker. Widely regarded as the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century, Warhol's work spanned various media, including painting, filmmaking, photography, publishing, and performance art.

A leading figure in the Pop art movement, his work explores the relationship between advertising, consumerism, mass media, and celebrity culture, transforming everyday consumer goods and familiar icons into renowned artworks. His embrace of mechanical reproduction challenged …