William Standing, known as Fire Bear was an American painter and illustrator.
12 Facts About William Standing
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William Standing was Assiniboine, and his work depicted the lives of Native Americans in the Northwestern United States.
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William Standing was Assiniboine; his great-grandfather, Wi-jun-jon, was the chief of the Assiniboine tribe.
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William Standing was educated on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation until he went to a boarding school run by Presbyterian missionaries in Wolf Point, Montana.
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William Standing attended the University of Oklahoma thanks to Oscar Jacobson, and he graduated from Haskell Institute in 1924.
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William Standing began his career as an interior designer in Kansas.
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William Standing moved back to Montana to become a painter, and he used pens, inks and oil to create his artwork.
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William Standing did many portraits of his grandfather and his great-grandfather.
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William Standing did a portrait of Charles Curtis, the 31st Vice President of the United States.
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William Standing illustrated the book Land of Naboka in 1942.
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William Standing's artwork was exhibited at the Arts Club of Washington as well as in Paris, France.
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William Standing died in a car accident near Zortman in Phillips County on June 27,1951, and his body was taken to Malta.