" SOLDIERS FALLING INTO CAMP "
Tom Gilleon - June 2011

50 s/n Giclee Canvas 17" x 34" $625
25 s/n Giclee Canvas 37" x 74" $2950

Sitting Bull and the Plains Indian warriors gathered along the banks of Little Bighorn
River did not panic when camp scouts reported the approach of the U.S. Cavalry.
| During a Sundance not long before, Sitting Bull experienced a vision of a great
number of dead Union “soldiers falling into camp” from the skies. It was a sign,
he felt, of a great victory to come.

“This painting, thanks to Daniel Long Soldier, has become a far more important
piece than I could have imagined,” artist R. Tom Gilleon enthusiastically relates.
“I had wanted to give an accurate depiction of the area where Custer met his
end and tell some of the Little Bighorn story from the Indian’s point of view.
Daniel’s Lakota Wicitowa (Lakota Paintings) of real warrior’s exploits,
which I’ve used as the pictographs on the tepees, add a spirit to the piece
that I couldn’t have achieved myself.

“The ribbon of river you see is the Little Bighorn. From a vantage point such
as this, it would be hard to see the true size of Sitting Bull’s encampment. On
the Plains, American soldiers were used to encountering villages of 50 to 60
lodges. In a landscape such as this, it’s easy to see why they would have had
trouble seeing just how many Indians were waiting below.”

The MuseumEdition™ of Soldiers Falling into Camp is intended to be accompanied
by Daniel Long Soldier’s diptych Day of Yellow Hair with the first 25 of that
edition reserved to create collectible sets with matching numbers. Collectors
can also pair the individual prints of Long Soldier’s drawings with the smaller
Fine Art Giclée Canvas Edition.

Gilleon’s previous editions of Tribal Tripartite and Shadow of the Sixth are
Sold Out at Publisher. Soldiers Falling into Camp will certainly follow suit.

 

- Soldiers Falling Into Camp -

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