Indians Testing Their Bows

Generously provided by Gilcrease Museum

This watercolor was adapted from one of the early drawings possibly made at the 1837 rendezvous (CR# 455A). It provides a color and compositional study for a finished watercolor commissioned more than twenty years later by William Walters (CR# 455B).

Peter H. Hassrick

Object Information
Provenance

Artist

Alfred Jacob Miller

Date

Unknown

Catalogue Number

455

Medium

Pencil and oil on paper

Inscriptions

UR: Indians Testing their Bows / 50/ LR on mat: Indians Testing Their Bows, In the presence of Sir William Drummond Stewart

Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 (19.1 x 26.7 cm)
Accession Number: 0136.2402
Subjects: Indians

The artist; by descent to Mrs. Joseph Whyte, 1947; [Edward Eberstadt and Sons, New York, NY, 1955]; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; present owner by gift

Indians Testing Their Bows

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