Details
Artist | John Mix Stanley, American, 1814-1872 |
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Date | 1860 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | Unframed: 20 × 15 1/2 inches (50.8 × 39.4 cm) Framed: 27 3/8 × 23 3/8 × 2 7/8 inches (69.5 × 59.4 × 7.3 cm) |
Credit Line | Detroit Museum of Art Purchase, Popular Subscription Fund |
Accession Number | 01.2 |
Department | American Art before 1950 |
On View | American W273, Level 2 (see map) |
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Signed | Signed and dated, lower left: J. M. Stanley | 1860 |
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Inscriptions | Inscribed, on the back of the canvas, beneath lining: The scene is laid amidst the rugged ground of the Gila river country and represents a party of Apaches advising their friends of the advance of General Kearney's expedition. In the foreground stands a high rock, iluminated by the rays of the declining sun. A party of Apaches are approaching while two have already scaled the rocks and one of them is waving a smoking foggot on high and the other is shading his eyes from the sun's rays with his hand. In the distance, across the valley to the left, a faint streak of smoke rises from behind a hill, which appears to be the answer to the signal. A mountain range dimly looming up on the horizen completes the picture. |
Provenance
1868, Mrs. M. Noble Brainard;
1901-present, purchase by the Detroit Museum of Art (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1901-present, purchase by the Detroit Museum of Art (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Kinietz, W. Vernon. John Mix Stanley and his Indian Paintings. Ann Arbor, 1942 (pl. 13).
Custer, Gen. George A. My Life on the Plains. Chicago, 1952, p. 490 (ill.).
The Last Frontier. Exh. cat., Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art. Kansas City, 1957, no. 64.
The Noble Savage. Exh. cat., University of Pennsylvania Museum. Philadelphia, 1958, no. 67.
John Mix Stanley: A Traveler in the West. Exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art. Ann Arbor, 1969, no. 7 (ill.).
Comstock, Helen. The Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques, Vol. 2. New York (pl. 240 A).
Custer, Gen. George A. My Life on the Plains. Chicago, 1952, p. 490 (ill.).
The Last Frontier. Exh. cat., Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art. Kansas City, 1957, no. 64.
The Noble Savage. Exh. cat., University of Pennsylvania Museum. Philadelphia, 1958, no. 67.
John Mix Stanley: A Traveler in the West. Exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art. Ann Arbor, 1969, no. 7 (ill.).
Comstock, Helen. The Concise Encyclopedia of American Antiques, Vol. 2. New York (pl. 240 A).