John Wesley Jarvis, Black Hawk and His Son Whirling Thunder, 1833, oil on canvas, 75.6 x 91.4 cm (Gilcrease Museum) Note: the Sac and Fox Nation changed the spelling of their name from the 19th-century Sauk

A conversation with Laura F. Fry, Senior Curator and Curator of Art, Gilcrease Museum, and Steven Zucker