{{Short description|Native American artist from Oklahoma (1941–2024)}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Rance Hood | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = Au Tup Ta (Yellow Hair) | native_name_lang = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1941 | birth_place = Lawton, Oklahoma | death_date = August 30, 2024 | death_place = Lawton, Oklahoma | resting_place = Comanche Cemetery, Indiahoma, Oklahoma | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = Comanche | education = Self-taught | alma_mater = | known_for = Artist, Designer, Sculptor, Medicine Man | notable_works = | style = Mystic painter | movement = | spouse = | awards = | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | website = Rancehoodgallery.com | module = }}

'''Rance Hood''' is an Oklahoma Native artist who echoes traditional Native American culture in his paintings. A self-taught artist, Hood was raised by his maternal grandparents who exposed him to Comanche Indian ways and values.<ref name="Rance Hood website">{{cite web|title=The Mystical Art of Rance Hood|url=http://www.rancehood.com/|publisher=Rance Hood|access-date=12 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905153003/http://www.rancehood.com/#|archive-date=2015-09-05|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Early life== Rance Hood was born in the farmlands between Cache and Indiahoma, Oklahoma to a Comanche mother and white father. Hood was the only one of his six siblings to stay with his Comanche maternal grandparents. As a child, Hood and his brother rode horses at their uncle's farm.<ref name="oral hist interview">{{cite journal|last1=Pearson-Little Thunder|first1=Julie|date=September 28, 2011|title=Oral history interview with Rance Hood|url=https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/ona/id/278/rec/1|journal=Oklahoma Native Artists|access-date=21 July 2020}}</ref>

==Career== Hood eventually started working for Krauss Printing Company.{{cn|date=September 2023}}

==Style and theme== Hood remained loyal to the traditional art style of Indian art passed down from his ancestors. He started out using oils to achieve a look of depth and eventually transitioned to acrylics.{{cn|date=September 2023}}

===Awards=== Over the years, Hood's work has been recognized by numerous awards and prizes. Some of these awards include:<ref name="Rance Hood website" />

*1962 Second and Third, American Indian Exposition, Anadarko, Oklahoma *1963 First, Second, and Third, American Indian Exposition, Anadarko, Oklahoma *1964 First and Second, American Indian Exposition, Anadarko, Oklahoma *1965 Grand Award and First, American Indian Exposition, Anadarko, Oklahoma *1966 Grand Award, Second and Third, American Indian Exposition, Anadarko, Oklahoma *Second, Gallup Inter-Tribal Ceremonial, Gallup, New Mexico *Honorable Mention, Texas-Oklahoma, sidewalk art show, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma *1968 War Dance, Honorable Mention, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma *1969 Second and Grand Award, American Indian Exposition, Anadarko, Oklahoma *The Comanche, Honorable Mention, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma *1970 Eagle Dance, First, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma *1972 Grand Award, American Indian Exposition, Anadarko, Oklahoma *1985 Western Writers Cover Art Award *American Artists Lithograph Competition for Poster Art *1986 Award of Merit, Colors of the Heartland *Reyna's Galleries, San Juan Bautista, California *First Anniversary Indian Market, First Place and Special Award, Santa Fe, New Mexico *Artists Out of Your Gourd, Ribbon, Charity auction of painted gourds, Santa Fe, New Mexico

===Commissions=== *1971 Designs for Theater Sets, Indian Theater Ensemble at Cafe La Mama Theater, New York City, New York *1987 Film Indian, Sculpture, American Indian Film Festival anniversary award *Medallion, Comanche Nation Commemorative Emblem, Franklin Mint *To Father Sky Mother Earth, poster, Oglala Sioux Rights Fund *Eagle, exterior design, Turbo West Aircraft Company, Cheyenne III Jet, Broomfield, Colorado *1989 Wooden Easter Egg for Easter at the White House, American artists egg exhibit *1990 Fleeing from the Spirit Winds and Emerging Power, posters, published by the American Indian Film Festival, XIV *2005 Illustrations for Blood of Our Earth: Poetic History of the American Indian by Dan C. Jones, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque *2005 Palo Duro Holocaust, mural for Comanche Nation Tribal Museum, Lawton, Oklahoma <ref name="Rance Hood website" />

===Private collections=== Hood's work is featured in several private collections, some of which include:<ref name="Rance Hood website" /> *Al Unser Jr. *Reba McEntire *Stevie Nicks *Carlos Santana *Jimmy Connors *Joe Walsh *Johnny Rodriguez *Joseph Coors *Michael Martin Murphey

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *[https://library.okstate.edu/search-and-find/collections/digital-collections/oklahoma-native-artists-project/ Oklahoma Native Artists Oral History Project -- OSU Library]

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