Background
Francis Blackbear Bosin was born June 5, 1921 in Cyril, Oklahoma near Anadarko. His parents were Frank Blackbear and Ada Tivis Bosin. His Kiowa name, Tsate Kongia, means "Blackbear" and belongs to his grandfather, a Kiowa chief. He attended St. Patrick's Mission School in Anadarko and was exposed to the paintings of the Kiowa Five.
In 1940, Bosin graduated from Cyril High School and moved moved to Wichita, Kansas in 1940. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served during World War II. In Kansas, he worked as a color separator and plate maker for Western Lithograph and as an artist for Boeing.
In 2010, Margaret Williams Norton wrote a book about Blackbear Bosin that focuses on his Keeper of the Plains sculpture that sits at the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas rivers in Wichita, Kansas.
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