Boneta, Comanche

Known as the painter of some 1,200 Indian portraits, Burbank studied at the Chicago Academy of Design (now the Art Institute of Chicago) then in Munich. In 1897, his uncle sent him to Fort Sill, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) to paint a portrait of Geronimo and he began his life’s painting portraits of American Indians. Burbank probably painted Boneta on this trip; the model posed for at least three portraits, all different.

This art was a Friends of Southwestern Art Purchase and is currently on exhibit in the PPHM Southwestern Gallery.