Yeffe Kimball
1978
American painter who fabricated a Native American identity (1906–1978)
Yeffe Kimball was an American painter known for her abstract modernist work with Native American and space exploration subjects. Kimball created work under an assumed Osage Indian identity, rising to prominence after her admittance of the painting Sacred Buffalo into the Philbrook Museum of Art's first Indian Annual in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1946.