Jerome Richard Tiger

Place: Tahlequah

Born: 1941

Death: 1967

Biography:

Jerome Richard Tiger was a Muscogee Nation-Seminole painter from Oklahoma. Tiger produced hundreds of paintings from 1962 until his death in 1967. He was a fullblood Muscogee Creek-Seminole, and his style is said to be a combination of 'spiritual vision, humane understanding, and technical skill'. Tiger's art can be found at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Philbrook and Gilcrease Museums in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the OSU Museum of Art in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and the Bacone school. He was married and had three children.