Andre Von Morisse, triptych titled: Three Amigos (Meeting Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull), 2024, oil on three canvases, each 24 x 22 in.

This triptych is a continuation of the artist series “The Inability of Meeting Someone Famous Objectively”.  The artist continues his exploration of iconic figures in history focusing on the American West. With Three Amigos he reveals the full names of each amigo: Annie Oakley’s real name was Phoebe Ann Moses. Her stage name was, Annie Oakley. She impressed Sitting Bull who adopted her as his daughter and gave her the Indian name “Watanya Cicilla” (Little Sure Shot); When a young boy, Sitting Bull was named “Hoka Psice” (Jumping Badger),  his nickname was “Hunkesi” (Slow) because he used to take his time to think things through before taking action.  As a young man he became “Tatanka Iyotake” (Buffalo Bull Who Sits Down) which was translated as Sitting Bull; William Frederick Cody was friend with both and was nicknamed “Buffalo Bill” after his contract to supply Kansas Pacific Railroad workers with Buffalo meat.

Labeled “The painter of Pop Surrealism” by Widewalls Magazine in 2013, Andre Von Morisse is an American Conceptual Painter (b.1966, Oslo, Norway). Von Morisse work is held in prominent museum and private collections in the United States.