By any measure, the life and art of Jerome Tiger are of undeniable fascination.  In the past decade, the Tiger art has come to be regarded as an almost inexplicable phenomenon.

He was a fullblood Creek-Seminole, born in 1941 in Oklahoma, and grew up on the campgrounds that surrounded his grandfather's Indian Baptist church near Eufala.  He attended public schools in Eufala and Muskogee, learned English, and became familiar with such marvels of white culture as running water, indoor toilets, and telephones.  He was a high school dropout, a street and ring fighter, and a laborer.  He married and had three children.  He died in 1967, at the age of twenty-six, of a gunshot wound.  He left behind a legacy of exquisite beauty.

The young Tiger's uncanny ability for drawing was always apparent, but it was not until he was grown that he could think of it as a career.   With little formal training and in spite of all advice, he committed himself to Indian art, and in the next five years, from 1962 until 1967, he produced hundreds of paintings that, from the beginning, received the acclaim of critics, won awards, and brought success.  With the kind of universal appeal common to great art, his work speaks not just to the Indian, but to everyone.

Jerome Tiger's art is carried on by carefully controlled and produced prints.  The Jerome Tiger reproductions have taken top awards in such prestigious events as the Printing Industries of America's annual competition.  Each of the lithographs is of a quality to hang along side the original Tiger painting from which it is made.