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Acee Blue Eagle (Alexander C. McIntosh) was born on 16 August, 1907 in North of Anadarko, Territory of Oklahoma, is a Native American painter, artist, educator, dancer (1907–1959). Discover Acee Blue Eagle's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 51 years old?
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Alexander C. McIntosh |
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Artist, educator, dancer, and Native American flute player. |
Age |
51 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Leo |
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16 August, 1907 |
Birthday |
16 August |
Birthplace |
North of Anadarko, Territory of Oklahoma |
Date of death |
18 June, 1959 |
Died Place |
Muskogee, Oklahoma |
Nationality |
United States
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Acee Blue Eagle Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Acee Blue Eagle's Wife?
His wife is Devi Dja
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Parents |
Solomon McIntosh, mother was Martha "Mattie" Odom |
Wife |
Devi Dja |
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Acee Blue Eagle Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Acee Blue Eagle worth at the age of 51 years old? Acee Blue Eagle’s income source is mostly from being a successful Artist. He is from United States. We have estimated Acee Blue Eagle's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
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For state legislator of Borth Carolina Alexander C. McIntosh see North Carolina General Assembly of 1899–1900
Acee Blue Eagle (17 August 1907 – 18 June 1959) was a Native American artist, educator, dancer, and Native American flute player, who directed the art program at Bacone College.
His birth name was Alexander C. McIntosh, he also went by Chebon Ahbulah (Laughing Boy), and Lumhee Holot-Tee (Blue Eagle), and was an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
Alexander C. McIntosh was born north of Anadarko, Oklahoma on August 17, 1907; however, his birth year is also given as 1909.
His father was Solomon McIntosh, and his mother was Martha "Mattie" McIntosh.
His Muscogee Creek great-grandfather served as a chief for 31 years.
Blue Eagle studied Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, and then Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, where he earned his high school diploma in 1928.
He began college at Bacone College in Muskogee and then completed his BFA degree at University of Oklahoma (OU) in Norman in 1932.
While at OU, Blue Eagle studied painting under Oscar B. Jacobson, known for popularizing "Flatstyle" painting.
Blue Eagle served for three years in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
Blue Eagle's work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
In 1934 he was invited to join the Public Works of Art Project; one of his murals was in the dining hall of the USS Oklahoma (BB-37).
He was commissioned to paint two murals for classrooms in the health and physical education building of Oklahoma College for Women, now the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, in Chickasha, Oklahoma.
He completed PWAP murals at other Oklahoma colleges, including one in the auditorium of Central State College (now University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond) and in the administration building of Northeastern State Teachers College (now Northeastern State University in Tahlequah).
Blue Eagle joined the art department at Bacone College in 1935, where he directed the program until 1938 and helped shaped development of the Bacone style of painting and grow the department.
After the war, he taught at Oklahoma State Technical School in Okmulgee.
In 1935, Blue Eagle was invited to give a series of lectures on American Indian art at Oxford University in England.
From 1936 to 1937, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman exhibited the solo show, Acee Blue Eagle, Bacone, water-colors.
By 1938, his work had become nationally recognized, and he had a solo exhibition at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City.
For the Section of Painting and Sculpture, Blue Eagle painted United States post office murals in Seminole, Oklahoma (1939) and Coalgate, Oklahoma (1942).
In the 1940s, he created a number of works for his friend, the collector Thomas Gilcrease.
Blue Eagle gained worldwide fame during his lifetime, and his two-dimensional paintings hang in private and public galleries all over the world.
Blue Eagle was well known for painting large interior murals, some of which are still preserved in Oklahoma, for the New Deal art projects.
He was chosen "Outstanding Indian in the United States" in 1958.
Among his many honors, Blue Eagle received a medal for eight paintings at the National Museum of Ethiopia, presented by the Emperor Haile Selassie I.
Acee Blue Eagle died on June 18, 1959, and is buried in the National Cemetery at Fort Gibson, Oklahoma.
Fred Beaver, a Muscogee Creek/Seminole artist, restored Blue Eagle's Coalgate mural in 1965.
Fellow Oklahoma artist and muralist Charles Banks Wilson said of Blue Eagle, "Acee was the Dale Carnegie of Indian Art. Curator and art historian Jeanne O. Snodgrass wrote in 1968, "If Oklahoma has a foundation in Indian Art, it is with Acee Blue Eagle."
Blue Eagle was briefly married to Indonesian American actress Devi Dja.
Another cousin, Howard Rufus Collins, painted under the name Ducee Blue Buzzard, as a parody of Acee's name.
Tamara Liegerot Elder published a biography of the artist: Lumhee Holot-tee: The Art and Life of Acee Blue Eagle, in 2006 through Medicine Wheel Press.
At Haskell Indian Nations University, a business administration building is named Blue Eagle Hall in his honor.
Blue Eagle's work was part of Stretching the Canvas: Eight Decades of Native Painting (2019–2021), a survey at the National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center.
Blue Eagle was elected into the Indian Hall of Fame, Who's Who of Oklahoma, and the International Who's Who.