JOHN ISAIAH PEPION IS A Plains Indian graphic artist from the Piikani Band of the Blackfoot Confederacy. He is best known for his ledger art, an art tradition that developed in Plains tribes when the buffalo hide traditionally used for painting became scarce, and people were forced to adapt by making artwork on ledger paper from accounting books. He comes from a legacy of artists and is based out of the Blackfeet reservation in northcentral Montana, where the Rocky Mountains meet the Plains. Pictographic art has been in his family for hundreds of years.
Backbone
Ink and colored pencil on an antique Montana map
Sky Raiders
Ink and colored pencil on antique ledger paper
Little Otter Woman Makes Berry Soup
Ink and colored pencil on antique ledger paper
Inside A Buffalo Lodge
Ink and colored pencil on antique ledger paper
Story Night
Ink and colored pencil on antique ledger paper
A Song For The Sun
Ink and colored pencil on antique ledger paper
