Daniel Owen Stolpe (November 14, 1939 – December 12, 2018)[1] was an American artist, painter, sculptor, master printmaker, fine artist book publisher, poetry book illustrator, and the founder of Native Images Editions, Santa Cruz, California.
Stolpe devoted his entire life to exploring the traditional spiritual and aesthetic culture of Native Americans and bringing that tradition to renewed contemporary expression in dramatic and expressive monotypes, woodcuts, serigraphs, etchings, and paintings.
[2] As a student in the early 1960s at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles,[1] he met and studied under artist, teacher, and printmaker Don La Viere Turner [Wikidata] (1929–1997) and art history professor Patrick Lennox Tierney.
Stolpe eventually left college to apprentice under Turner, where he learned the art of creating and printing intaglios and woodcuts.
He contributed his own artwork to notable publications, such as William Everson's "Canticle to the Waterbirds,"[4] and William Shipley's translations of Maidu Indian myths recounted around 1900 by Maidu storyteller Hanc'Ibyjim to Harvard University anthropologist and linguist Roland Dixon and published as Love and Death by Native Images in 2004.