Andrew Standing Soldier

Andrew Standing Soldier (1917 – 1967) was an Oglala Lakota artist from the United States, known for his depictions of contemporary Native American life.

Andrew Standing Soldier was born in 1917 in Hisle, South Dakota, a town on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

[1] Encouraged by his teachers, he began to pursue mural painting during the summer of 1937, under artist Olaf (Olle) Nordmark, who was the federal artist-in-residence on the Reservation.

He received a prize for one of his watercolors depicting Sioux fire starters, exhibited at the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939 in San Francisco.

[4] Standing Soldier was one of the approximately 10,000 artists employed during the Great Depression by the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Federal Art Project.