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Oscar Howe (1915-1983) was a groundbreaking and influential Yaktonai Dakota artist and mid-century modernist who achieved a paradigm-shift in Native American art.   The Oscar Howe Project , organized collaboratively by the National Museum of the American Indian, Denver Art Museum, and Philbrook Museum of Art, will present 75 paintings by Howe spanning his forty-year career.  The arc of his style, which merged traditional Dakota aesthetics with a dynamic abstraction, demonstrated a seminal rejection of accepted notions of authentic Indian art, and inspired a new generation of Native American artists to declare their own artistic sovereignty.