Collection: Kevin Red Star - Private Collection Sale

Kevin Red Star (b. 1943) is an Apsáalooke (Crow) painter whose richly detailed, ceremonially vibrant canvases have established him as one of the foremost chroniclers and ambassadors of Crow Culture in the history of contemporary Native American art. Born on the Crow Reservation in Lodge Grass, Montana, he grew up in a family that placed art and culture at its center.  His immersion in a household where creative practice was both valued and lived gave Red Star a foundation of cultural knowledge and aesthetic sensitivity that formal training would deepen. He studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, before attending the San Francisco Art Institute, where his work quickly attracted the attention of both corporate and museum collectors.

Red Star's paintings are distinguished by their meticulous research into Apsáalooke history and ceremony, combined with a bold contemporary palette and a compositional confidence that gives his figures monumental presence.  Warriors in full ceremonial regalia, traditional dress, face paint, and the material culture of Plains Indian life are rendered with both ethnographic care and expressive power, creating works that feel at once culturally reverent and visually commanding. 

Red Star's paintings are held in significant private and museum collections nationally and internationally. His career represents one of the most sustained  acts of cultural stewardship in the history of Southwest and Native American art.