Welcome to The Allan Houser Foundation

Allan Houser, who lived from 1914 to 1994, became famous throughout North America and Europe for his bold statements in stone and bronze.  He was an illustrator of books and a painter in gauche, watercolor, oil and acrylic.  He created hundreds of sketches, pastel and charcoal drawings and left two hundred and thirty-nine sketchbooks.

Allan Houser was dedicated to portraying people with respect and dignity.  Being Apache, from the Fort Sill survivors of the Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache tribe, Allan Houser was immersed in the history and community of Indian people.

Reflections
1994, fabricated bronze , 14 1/2" X 16" X 20"

He cultivated an appreciation for the traditional dress and appointment of different people and sought to be very accurate in his designs.

More than this attention to detail, he explored modes of design informed by the many sculptors he respected.  Modern sculptors, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Constantin Brancusi, Jean Arp, Francisco Zuñiga, Sebastian, and Barbara Hepworth, guided his eye and hand and inspired his passion.

The Allan Houser Museum & Institute of Indigenous Peoples Art & Culture

The Allan Houser Foundation is in the early stages of planning for the development of a permanent home for a collection of Allan Houser's creative work and artifacts.

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Goals of the Allan Houser Foundation

The primary mission of the Allan Houser foundation is to promote international recognition for Allan Houser.  Our continued goal is the development of working relationships with educational institutions worldwide.  We provide resources for scholars for study, exhibition and the continued documentation of the life and works of Allan Houser. 

Artwork and objects from the Allan Houser Archives have been loaned under the auspices of the Allan Houser Foundation to numerous institutions including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and the Heard Museum for its current exhibition “Shadow and Form” at the Heard North facility.

The Foundation hopes to preserve the existing archives, foundry, sculpture garden, visitor’s center and gallery and keep them on the site that Allan Houser selected to create his studio and sculpture walk.

A major goal for the Foundation is the creation of the Allan Houser Museum.  The Allan Houser Museum would be located in Santa Fe and contain the entire art collection of the Foundation and selected artwork from the collection of Mrs. Anna Marie Houser.