April 8, 2020Harold PorcherModern & Post-War Art Cultural Cross-Currents: The Indian Space Painters Read more about Cultural Cross-Currents: The Indian Space Painters The Indian Space Painters may be the modern artists most closely associated with Native American art. In Haida and Tlingit art, these American modernists found anthropomorphic interlocking subject matter that lent itself to the Surrealist abstraction they were already emulating in their own paintings.