Penni Anne Cross “Teesa Waits to Dance” signed print 28/47

Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross, (Alawa-sta-we-ches) was born in Washington state in 1939. She first studied with her portrait-painter mother, before beginning more formal studies in 1968. Her work is commercially oriented, sentimentalizing her paintings of Native Americans of the Crow tribe. Cross' Crow name, "Alawa-sta-we-ches," means "Travels the Good Road." The artist's works have gone up for sale at public auction 9 times, mostly in the Drawing-Watercolor category. “Teesa Waits to Dance” is signed and numbered 28/47.