Jerome Tiger

[1][2] A fullblood Muscogee Creek-Seminole, Tiger's style is said to be a combination of "spiritual vision, humane understanding, and technical virtuosity" but with traditional subject matter and composition.

Dropping out of high school at the age of 16, Tiger joined the United States Navy and served in the Naval Reserve from 1958 to 1960.

In 1962, a friend encouraged Tiger to submit his paintings to the American Indian Artists Annual at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

[4] Tiger was compared to Rembrandt and Francisco Goya because of his ability to draw an object or person after a short glance.

[2] In the early hours of August 13, 1967, after a night of shooting at fence posts with friends, a bullet discharged accidentally from his .