American Indian sculptor dies at 60
American Indian sculptor dies at 60

Kiowa and Western Delaware artist and sculptor Parker Boyiddle died Tuesday while working on a sculpture in Idaho. He was 60.

The former Oklahoma artist had lived in Colorado for several years. Boyiddle is best remembered for three panels he created in celebration of the Kiowa Nation. The panels, which were commissioned in 1984 by the tribe, hang in the Kiowa Tribal Museum in Carnegie.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Westcliffe, Colo., according to his Web site, www.parkerboyiddle.com.

Anyone wishing to honor Boyiddle can make donations to the Parker Boyiddle Scholarship Fund at the Institute of American Indian Arts, according to the Web site.

Boyiddle studied with Alan Houser and Fritz Scholder at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, N.M. He returned to the institute as an artist-in-residence in 1995. His work has been exhibited at numerous U.S. and foreign museums.

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