Doug Hyde - Claggett/Rey Gallery

AWARDS

National Sculpture Society - Elected Member

1973 Gold Medal at the Heard Museum’s Sculptor I Exhibition

1984-2000 Artist of America Master, Denver, CO

1996 recipient of Santa Fe Rotary’s Distinguished Artist Award

1998 co-recipient of the IAIA Foundation’s Visionary Award

2002 Honorary Featured Artist, Heard Museum annual Indian Fair & Market

2003 Recipient of NM Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts

SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Buffalo Bill Historical Museum, Cody, Wyoming

Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona - six sculptures

Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Museum of the Plains Indian, Browning, Montana

Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas

Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California

Phoenix Plaza, Phoenix, Arizona

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Museum of Indian Art & Culture, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana

Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado

Lewis and Clark State College, Lewiston, Idaho

City of Palm Springs, Palm Springs, California

Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Albuquerque Federal Court House, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Autrey Museum, Los Angeles, California

Phoenician Resort, Phoenix, Arizona

Smithsonian Museum Research Center, Suitland, +Washington, D.C.

Monumental Private Collection, Beverly Hills, California

Corporate Collection, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Monumental Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois

National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

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Doug Hyde was born in 1946 in Hermiston, Oregon of Native American descent - Nez Perce, Assiniboine and Chippewa. Doug’s work is influenced by the Indian lore he learned as a youth from his grandfather, who was called “Judge” because of his wisdom, and from other elders. Through legends of animal character they taught the morals of the people, the ways of Mother Earth, and how human beings came to be.

Today, Doug expresses the Indian mythology and spirit through his sculpture. Doug grew up in Idaho and at the age of seventeen came to Santa Fe. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from 1963 to 1966, during which time he enjoyed the tutelage and friendship of the late renowned Apache sculptor, Allan Houser.

In 1967 Doug attended the San Francisco Art Institute on scholarship for a time before enlisting in the U.S. Army. During his second tour of duty in Vietnam, he was very seriously wounded by a grenade. During his recuperation he learned the use of power tools in the cutting and shaping of stone while working in a friend’s memorial business, all the while continuing his art education. He returned to Santa Fe in 1972 to teach at the Institute of American Indian Arts, bringing with him experience and knowledge as well as a desire to learn all he could about the other native cultures. He also brought with him the ability to capture a vision and transform it into a three-dimensional image. Doug was a member of the Institute of American Indian Art’s faculty until 1974 when he decided to devote himself fully to his art. He remains a resident of Santa Fe while sculpting in stone and bronze which remains the focus of his life.