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Jerome Richard Tiger

Jerome Richard Tiger (1941 - 1967) was active/lived in Oklahoma.  Jerome Tiger is known for Painting and sculpture-Indian subjects.

Jerome Tiger was a full blood Creek-Seminole, born in 1941 in Oklahoma.  He grew up on the campgrounds that surrounded his grandfather's Indian Baptist church near the sleepy town of Eufaula. Research for many of his paintings began when he was still a child as he traveled with his maternal grandfather, Coleman Lewis, a Baptist Missionary. Coleman traveled throughout Indian Country and on the long rides through the backwoods to churches, and Coleman taught his grandson the history of the Creek people in his native Creek language.

In Enfaula and, later, in Muskogee, Tiger attended public schools, learned English, and became familiar with such marvels of white culture as running water, indoor toilets, and telephones. He was a high school dropout, a street and ring fighter of exceptional ability, and a laborer. He married and had three children. And he died in 1967, at the age of twenty-six, of a gunshot wound to the head. Tiger's legacy was his paintings: a body of work of ex   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4272 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Jerome Richard Tiger

   Jerome Richard Tiger  Born:  1941 - Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Died:   1967 - Muskogee, Oklahoma
Known for:  Painting and sculpture-Indian subjects

Jerome Tiger was a full blood Creek-Seminole, born in 1941 in Oklahoma.  He grew up on the campgrounds that surrounded his grandfather's Indian Baptist church near the sleepy town of Eufaula. Research for many of his paintings began when he was still a child as he traveled with his maternal grandfather, Coleman Lewis, a Baptist Missionary. Coleman traveled throughout Indian Country and on the long rides through the backwoods to churches, and Coleman taught his grandson the history of the Creek people in his native Creek language.

In Enfaula and, later, in Muskogee, Tiger attended public schools, learned English, and became familiar with such marvels of white culture as running water, indoor toilets, and telephones. He was a high  ...  Displaying 750 of 4272 characters.

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