Yeffe Kimball

Yeffe Kimball, born Effie Goodman, (March 30, 1906– April 11, 1978) was an American player known for her abstract modernist work on Native American culture and tell exploration. Kimball created work under an assumed Osage Indian identity, rising to emphasis after her right to use of the painting Sacred Buffalo into the First Annual Exhibition of American Indian Painting at the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1946.