End of the Day 1995 Release. Available from the publisher. Says Friberg, "I have painted my share of Apaches chasing the Butterfield stagecoach, for violent action was a part of Western history. But as the years roll away, I find I would rather pic, ture the peace, the distance, the mysterious beauty of the West. I have never lost my boyhood sense of wonder about the deep northern forest and the mystical Sonoran desert. It is my real and most transcendent place of worship; my deepest reverence is felt as I witness the evidence of the hand of the Creator in all-things." Her Hero 1990 Release. Available from the publisher. From first-hand observation of Indian camp life, Friberg here has recorded many richly authentic details of the tepees - stakes, lacing, pins, medicine bundles, painted designs; and the orderly interlocking of lodge poles over the smoke holes. Also stretched hides and meat drying racks, all giving a complete picture of a people at home with nature. The small girl in the tepee doorway looks with admiration upon the macho brave on his strong horse. Into New Country Into New Country depicts a setting high on top of the rugged and awe-inspiring Western mountains which leads you down to fertile canyon expanses and into crystal blue waterways below. Into New Country shows a Native American people seeking new beginnings, heading into undiscovered territory, seeking a new country free to live their way of life without regrets of the past. Well known for his grasp of dramatic and emotional artistic expression masterfully painted on canvas, Arnold Friberg considers himself, a storyteller. He paints the story, but it is up to us to seek out the inner meaning that is so painstakingly brush stroked into every Friberg painting. Into the Valley Indian men wanted their women to present a fine appearance on horseback. As a result, women's horse gear was much more elaborate and decorated than the men's. Here Friberg has pictured a splendid procession of a tribe on the move, with richly beaded saddles, chest bands, and cruppers on horses drawing burdens by means of lodge poles laced into a "travois," ridden by squaws carrying papooses on their backs in highly decorated cradleboards. Waters of Manitou 1990 Release. Available from the publisher. Early in the 1940's, Friberg saw "the most splendid Indian birchbark canoe" in a Chicago museum. He made a sketch and used it as a basis for several paintings, but finally wanted to capture it more richly as the subject of a large new painting. When he returned to the museum, they had long since discontinued the exhibit and the canoe was found dirty and falling apart in storage. It lives on in its full glory in this painting, afloat in a calm lake the Indians considered sacred. "Manitou" is the Indian name for God. When the Land was His 1986 Release. Arnold Friberg has always felt a deep respect for Native American cultures both in the U.S. and in Canada. After all of his work with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada feels like his second home. It has been a great honor to him that Native Americans visiting his studio have often commented that his paintings have "strong medicine." He views When the Land Was His as a companion to his equestrian portrait of Prince Charles, "Each represents royalty in his own domain." Not an action picture, this is a tribute to the beauty and ingenuity of Indian craftsmanship, achieved with simple, available native materials.