Label Type
Tombstone LabelLabel
Marvin Oliver
Quinault/Isleta Pueblo, 1946–2019
Killer Whale Fin, 1988
Silkscreen
Collection of the C.N. Gorman Museum, UC Davis. Gift of Gloria and Selig Kaplan.
Over the course of a 45-year career, Marvin Oliver became one of the Northwest Coast’s most renowned Native American artists. Oliver worked in a wide range of media, including carvings, sculpture, printmaking, and blown glass, and referenced Northwest Coast and Salish styles.
“My works are formulated by merging the spirit of past traditions with those of the present…to create new horizons for the future.” - Marvin Oliver