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Early afternoon, June 25, 1876, Montana Territory, two scouts from the Sioux Encampment sight the Seventh Cavalry, led by General George Armstrong Custer, approaching from the East. The infamous Battle of the Little Bighorn is about to begin. Known to Native Americans as the Battle of Greasy Grass Creek, the conflict between a combined group of Lakota and Northern Cheyenne (led by great leaders such as Chief Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse) against Custer’s cavalry was a stunning defeat for the U.S. Army. Much has been made of Custer’s possible hubris in actions that led up to the battle, but the stark fact remains that these Native American warriors fought in a far superior fashion than had been expected. Also known as “Custer’s Last Stand,” the battle represented the high water mark of the Indian alliance and the call for retribution on the part of the U.S. citizenry was answered swiftly and harshly.
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Z.S. Liang, born in China in 1953 and raised in a family of artists, published
his first painting at age 6 in a children’s magazine. His art education
spanned two continents, beginning at the Central Academy of Fine Art in
Beijing and continuing to the Massachusetts College of Art and Boston
University. His award-winning paintings hang in both corporate and private
collections around the world and several of his murals are permanently on
display in New York City.
His works are in corporate and private collections throughout the
United States and many other countries, including Sheraton Corporation,
Marriott Corporation, Weseda University Tokyo and the West Point Museum. Among
the many awards Liang has received are the Best of Show and People’s Choice at
the American Society of Portrait Artists, the Arthur Ross Award for Painting
at the Classical America New York, and the Lila Acheson Wallace Award for
Painting at the Society of American Illustrators. Liang’s paintings have been
featured in the Artist’s Magazine and the International Artists.
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