Collection Highlights
"Columbia Demands Her Children"
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.010.1864.30
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Four Portraits of North American Indians; verso: sketch of brave riding a horse and shooting a bow and arrow
Object Number:
1941.1209
Date:
1859
Medium:
Oil on gray marbleized prepared heavy textured paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 × 19 in. (35.6 × 48.3 cm)
Mat: 19 1/2 × 24 3/4 in. (49.5 × 62.9 cm)
Marks:
Signed: at lower right: "A. Bierstadt."
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower right in oil: "ABierstadt"; sitters identified from left to right: "Pangwetiekig[?] / Fish Enler [?]"; "Kaniac"; "Barbage"
Description:
Half figures
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot
Provenance:
Cornelius Michaelson, New York City; Rains Galleries, NYC, 1935; Adelaide Milton de Groot Collection, NYC
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
