"This painting stands alone as immaculate, in an unclean world." (One of The 38, Plus Two). WITH THE LONGEST RIDE COMES THE PICTURE BEHIND THE PAINTING, THE STORY, AND THE AUTOGRAPH OF THE RIDER. Tocka? …

Sep 4, 2015 · Leonard Peltier could not be present at the exhibition of his artwork at the second Indigenous Fine Arts Market (IFAM) in Santa Fe, NM, held on August 20-22, because he's been incarcerated in the U.S. federal penitentiary system for the last 40 years.

Leonard donates his paintings to his defense committee to help support efforts to win his freedom. Leonard’s paintings are collected by celebrities and luminaries worldwide including Oliver Stone, Peter Coyote, Jane Fonda, Val Kilmer, and Michael Apted.

Leonard’s artwork has always been a vision of his way of life, his hope for freedom and his love for his people. These paintings are available for sale and an absolute investment. Please call or email for any art inquiry.

As of December 2024, Leonard Peltier is 80 years old (born on September 12, 1944). He has been incarcerated for 47 years, making his imprisonment one of the longest for a political prisoner in the United States.

At 71, the movement elder is still awaiting release–from prison, or from this world. And In the meantime, he paints. His images are one way his soul manages to reach the outside world, and the closest thing he has to an escape route from his bleak surroundings in federal custody." Article by Michelle Chen.

Leonard Peltier, a citizen of the Anishinabe and Lakota Nations, is a father, a grandfather, an artist, a writer, and an Indigenous rights activist. He has spent more than twenty-seven years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

This is 78-year-old American Indian Leonard Peltier's plea to President Biden as he begins his 47th year of being wrongfully imprisoned since 1975. This book, Leonard Peltier – Art Behind Bars: Dreams of Freedom presents 126 of his beautiful paintings, the fruits of his vivid imagination, that he created in prison, keeping him alive as he ...

Jan 20, 2025 · One of the last acts of President Biden before he left office was to commute the sentence of jailed Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier. Peltier had been serving two life sentences, convicted of killing two FBI agents at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1975.

Aug 14, 2015 · Leonard Peltier, a Chippewa Sioux, began painting in the 1980s while in prison. His works show a skill for representational detail in traditional and contem-porary Native-themed works,...