the Native American Church and created stylized paintings that combined ceremonial implements with religious imagery. Besides being a visual artist, he was a highly accomplished dancer and flute-player. Mopope's work was part of Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting (2019–21), a survey at the National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center in New York. Mopope's granddaughter Vanessa Jennings is a Kiowa/Apache/Pima beadwork artist and regalia maker. Public collections Mopope's work can be found in the following public art collections: Anadarko City Museum Anadarko Community Library Bank of America Collection, Phoenix, Arizona Brigham City Museum of Art & History, Brigham City, Utah City of Anadarko Cleveland Museum of Art Dartmouth College Collection Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art The George Gustav Heye Center Gilcrease Museum Heard Museum Indian Arts and Crafts Board, US Department of the Interior Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art McNay Art Museum Museum of Northern Arizona, Katherine Harvey Collection Museum of New Mexico Millicent Rogers Museum National Gallery of Art Oklahoma Art Center Oklahoma Historical Society Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Oklahoma State Art Collection Oklahoma Science and Art Foundation, Gerrer Collection Peabody Essex Museum Philbrook Museum of Art Southwest Museum Seminole Public Library Smithsonian American Art Museum Southern Plains Indian Museum University of Oklahoma, Library Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian Woolaroc Museum Death On 2 February 1974, Mopope died at Fort Cobb, Oklahoma. Notes References Lester, Patrick D. The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters. Norman and London: The Oklahoma University Press, 1995. . Swan, Daniel C. Peyote Religious Art: Symbols and Faith and Belief. Jackson, University of Mississippi Press, 1999. . Wyckoff, Lydia L., ed. Visions and voices : Native American painting from the Philbrook Museum of Art. Tulsa, OK: Philbrook Museum of Art, 1996. . External links Jacobson House Native Art Center: About the Kiowa Six Stephen Mopope, article from the Oklahoma Historical Society Kiowa people Native American painters 1898 births 1974 deaths Painters from Oklahoma People from Anadarko, Oklahoma Native American Church American people of Spanish descent 20th-century American painters American male painters Native American male artists Native American dancers Dancers from Oklahoma 20th-century Native Americans 20th-century American male artists