Bacone style

The Bacone style or Bacone school of painting, drawing, and printmaking is a Native American Flatstyle art movement, primarily from the mid-20th century in Eastern Oklahoma. This art movement bridges historical, tribally-specific pictorial painting and carving practices towards an intertribal Modernist style of easel painting.

Named for Bacone College, an Indian college in Muskogee, Oklahoma, this style is also influenced by the art programs of Chilocco Indian School, north of Ponca City, Oklahoma, and Haskell Indian Industrial Training Institute, in Lawrence, Kansas. This area features a mix of Southeastern, Prairie, and Central Plains tribes. Tribes from these regions each have their own historical practices of pictorial representation, whether in carving or painting; however, removal to Indian Territory in the 19th century disrupted many customary art practices. Access to Western art materials gave Native artists a new means of self-expression and recording history and daily practices.

Acee Blue Eagle (1907–1959) helped shape the Bacone style. Being Muscogee Creek, Pawnee, and Wichita, he used Southeastern Woodland and Central Plains influences in his work, which frequently portrayed cultural or historic information about his tribes in a stylized, narrative form. Blue Eagle served as the first director of Bacone's art department from 1935 to 1939.Woody Crumbo (Potawatomi) succeeded him in 1938. 1938 is the year artist Ruthe Blalock Jones (Shawnee/Delaware/Peoria) gives for the establishment of the Bacone School of Indian painting, while some would give the year 1935.

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