Review | Native American painters have long been overlooked. This show helps rectify that.

Paintings by Native American artists haven’t been shown often in D.C. museums, Indian artists having long been dismissively pigeonholed as working mainly in “crafts,” such as textiles and ceramics. The National Gallery of Art staged “Contemporary American Indian Painting” in 1953 but has not focused on Native painters since. (Its groundbreaking 2023 exhibition of contemporary Native artwork, “The Land Carries Our Ancestors,” featured some paintings but was not comprehensive.)