Acee Blue Eagle
Creek and Pawnee artist (1907-1959)
Acee Blue Eagle (17 August 1907 – 18 June 1959) was a Native American artist, educator, dancer, and Native American flute player, who directed the art program at Bacone College. His birth name was Alexander C. McIntosh, he also went by Chebon Ahbulah (Laughing Boy), and Lumhee Holot-Tee (Blue Eagle), and was an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
Early life and education
Alexander C. McIntosh was born north of Anadarko, Oklahoma on August 17, 1907; however, his birth year is also given as 1909. His father was Solomon McIntosh (Muscogee), and his mother was Martha "Mattie" Odom McIntosh. His Muscogee Creek great-grandfather served as a chief for 31 years.
Blue Eagle studied Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, and then Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, where he earned his high school diploma in 1928. He began college at Bacone College in Muskogee and then studied art at University of Oklahoma (OU) in Norman in 1932. While at OU, Blue Eagle studied painting under Oscar B. Jacobson, known for popularizing "Flatstyle" painting.
Blue Eagle served for three years in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
Teaching career
Blue Eagle joined the art department at Bacone College in 1935, where he directed the program until 1938 and helped shaped development of the Bacone style of painting and grow the department. After the war, he taught at Oklahoma State Technical School in Okmulgee.
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