Art of the Plains

40th Anniversary Exhibition and Sale

The Art of the Plains

August 9 - 31, 2025
Opening Reception:
Saturday, August 9
6 - 8pm

For the last 40 years, Morning Star Gallery has been the standard bearer in the field of antique Native American art. Morning Star Gallery’s reputation is built upon the foundations of expertise, quality, and integrity.

Morning Star Gallery has help to build some of the most important and prominent private collections of antique Native American art ever assembled, and has also been instrumental in many significant institutional acquisitions.

In honor of this important occasion, we have put together an exceptional group of material. This year’s exhibition and sale includes an impressive array of Plains graphic art, beadwork, and parfleche.

Featured Highlights Include:

Pair of matched Cheyenne parfleche envelopes, Ex. Maxwell Collection

Group of 19th C. Lakota ledger drawings, from the Goodwyn Ledger book

Northern Plains pictorial beaded jacket, published, “A Beading Heart, the Bob and Lora Sandroni Collection,” page 7

Central Plains child’s belt with multiple beaded bags

Crow buffalo rawhide parfleche cylinder, Ex. Chandler-Pohrt Collection