
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A mural by a well-known Kiowa-Comanche artist is being hung in a Wichita museum that focuses on the Plains Indians.
The Wichita Eagle reports that a March 13 unveiling is planned at the Mid-America All-Indian Center for the last large mural painted by Blackbear Bosin. The acrylic mural on canvas, entitled “From Whence All Life,” was commissioned by Farm Credit Bank and displayed in 1972.
Bosin is most famous for creating the 44-foot tall steel Keeper of the Plains statue at the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas rivers.
Last fall, the owner of the Farm Credit Bank building — CoBank out of Colorado — offered to donate the art to the city.
City documents say an independent appraisal in November valued the mural at $185,000.