Mirac Creepingbear (1947 - 1990)
Mirac Creepingbear's mother Rita Little Chief Creepingbear wanted to name him Miracle. When filllng out the forms, Rita ran the letters over into the middle name block. The clerk recorded his name as Mirac Lee Creepingbear. Growing up in two Indian communities Carnegie & Pawnee, OK, Mirac maintained close ties with both sides of his family. He is considered one of the more important of Oklahoma's traditional artists. His paintings, in oil, watercolor, acrylic and pastel, show a style that is fluid and dramatic and alludes to Native-American culture. He emulated the works of his Kiowa elders as well as American Western artists Frederic Remington and Charles Russell.