STUNNING REALISTIC
PAINTINGS OF INDIAN CHILDREN - BY KAREN NOLES.
Karen Noles was born and raised in the very small town of Merna, Nebraska, in 1947. She always loved to draw and never missed the opportunity to creat her masterpieces on everything suitable for drawing: books magazines, wallpapers and so on, so it is not surprising that once the parents still noticed her extraordinary artistic abilities and began to encourage them in every possible way.
At first, in parallel with the general education, there was a children's art school, then, at the age of nineteen, Karen entered, and later graduated from the Omaha School of Commercial Art and got a job at Hallmark Card as an illustrator of greeting cards, for Hallmark and other companies she continued working in illustrations for almost 20 years, from time to time devoting free time to painting "for myself", and the sale of paintings brought her additional income.
However, twenty years later, Karen’s life changed dramatically. She left everything and moved to northwestern Montana and spent the next 35 years on the Flathead Native Reservation, living and working away from the bustle of the city. (Today, most descendants of the Indians of the United States and Canada live in much the same way as descendants of the Europeans. Only a third of them occupy reservations - autonomous Indian territories, which make up about two percent of the US area. Modern Indians enjoy a number of benefits, and to get them, you need to prove native American origin, it’s enough for your ancestor to be mentioned in a census of the beginning of the 20th century or to have a certain percentage of Indian blood.)
Here she created, which made her famous, a series of oil paintings dedicated to the Indians - Native Americans - and especially their children, it was the Indian children who attracted her attention. Karen's paintings are a kind of exhibition about the life of the Indians, according to which their culture can be studied. Currently, her unusually realistic paintings can be seen in the gallery "Settlers of the West" in Tucson, Arizona, the gallery "West" in Jackson, Wyoming and some others, among paintings of similar subjects. In addition, Karen's paintings of Indians adorn many private collections of fine art collectors from the United States and Europe.
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