The exhibition ‘Mary Sully: Native Modern’ at the Metropolitan Museum features a trove of works by the self-taught Yankton Dakota artist that remained unseen for decades.
Sully was born Susan Deloria on the Standing Rock Reservation in 1896, part of an artistic lineage that includes renowned artists and a minister's daughter.
Despite financial struggles and personal challenges, Sully produced a remarkable series of 134 vertical triptychs known as Personality Prints, reflecting both humor and critique.
The show at the Met presents nearly 200 works, including the art of Sully's sister, Ella Cara Deloria, who was a pioneering Native American ethnographer.
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