Consigning the works of Earl Biss

Earl Biss was born in Washington State in 1947. Biss, a member of the Crow tribe, spent summers on the reservation in Montana where he was raised by his grandmother. During his time on the reservation, Biss absorbed tribal legends and history from the elders, roamed the mountain landscape, and found a lasting inspiration that would be represented in his finest works. As an adult, Biss frequently returned to Montana to live, paint, and absorb the landscape. Biss was awarded two scholarships to pursue his education, one from the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe (where he studied under the guidance of Fritz Scholder and Allan Houser) and the other from the San Francisco Art Institute, from which he graduated in 1971.