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Cherokee by Blood (Red Sky with Aphid Hemlocks)

Cherokee by Blood (Red Sky with Aphid Hemlocks)

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Emily Arthur

Cherokee by Blood (Red Sky with Aphid Hemlocks) is from a body of work that responds to and incorporates the text of “Cherokee by Blood,” a report commissioned by the U.S. Court of Claims to determine eligibility to payments issued under U.S. treaties with the Eastern Band of Cherokee dating to 1835-36 and 1845. The investigation into eligibility began in 1906 and concluded in 1910 and consisted of over one hundred thousand interviews with people applying to the U.S. Court of Claims in an effort to retain their identity and tribal enrollment within the Cherokee Nation. About one third of these were denied their claim and thus their heritage. While featuring both a personal and cultural concern, the work also speaks to more universal topics of exile and the desire to belong.
Artist
Emily Arthur
(American)
Title
Cherokee by Blood (Red Sky with Aphid Hemlocks)
Date
2018
Medium
Screen print
Dimensions
50 x 38 1/4 in. overall
Credit
Ruth C. Wallerstein Endowment Fund purchase
Accession No.
2020.41
Classification
Prints
Geography
United States

Related

November 2020, sold by the artist, Emily Arthur (Madison, WI) to the Chazen Museum of Art

  • Mithlo, Nancy Marie. "Emily Arthur: Final Determinations: “Cherokee by Blood”." In "Visualizing Genocide: Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums." Edited by Yve Chavez and Nancy Marie Mithlo. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2022. 208, Fig. 9.5

  • Faculty Exhibition 2020: Chazen Museum of Art, 2/1/2020–7/31/2020

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