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John Taylor Howling Wolf Analysis

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While these artists’ renditions of the Treaty Signing at Medicine Lodge Creek contain the same content, John Taylor and Howling Wolf's show very different views. I believe that the difference in views arose due to the fact that these two men had different cultural backgrounds from one another. John Taylor was a hired journalist while Howling Wolf was Native American. John Taylor's sketch has a very natural feel while Howling Wolf's is abstract. John Taylor’s illustration is more natural and realistic than representational because he was focusing on what he saw at the treaty signing, but his beliefs may have caused him to make the Native Americans look stern and no nonsense by creating micro facial expressions. While the European Americans

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