Incredible lithograph by the great Texas artist Ancel Nunn.

Numbered 4/41.

Signed “Ancel E Nunn” at lower right.

Image 19" x 12.5." 

Frame 30.25" x 23.5." 

Isa-Tai was a Comanche prophet who in 1874 roused the Comanches to attack a group of white buffalo hunters. In the Second Battle of Adobe Walls, which took place in the Texas Panhandle, the Comanches were defeated. Isa-Tai was quickly  discredited as an Indian leader and the Comanches were soon confined to a reservation. Nunn's depiction of Isa-Tai is sympathetic but not overly sentimental. The disembodied heads of both the buffalo and Isa-Tai convey the reality of defeat and dislocation. As art, the image is a thing of beauty. If only all fallen visions were this impressive.