Untitled (A U.S. Cavalry Officer)
White Swan, Apsaalooke / American, 1851 - 1904
Apsáalooke (Crow / Absaroke)
Northern Plains
Plains
about 1890
Graphite and colored pencil on wove canvas paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 7 3/16 × 9 1/16 in. (18.2 × 23 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection; Partial gift of Mark Lansburgh, Class of 1949; and partial purchase through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund, and the Offices of the President and Provost of Dartmouth College
2007.65.94
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Ledger Drawing
Research Area
Native American
Drawing
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on reverse, in graphite, lower left, in script: Mrs. E. P. Green / 17958 Hatton / Reseda Di 2-8323 [crossed out]; on side, inscribed: 5; stamped, lower left, in ink, three times: LANSBURGH [semi-circle] / in graphite, 1987 [in one stamp]; inscribed, below, in graphite: Santa Fe, N M
Exhibition History
Native American Ledger Drawings from the Hood Museum of Art: The Mark Lansburgh Collection, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 2-December 19, 2010.
Nineteenth-Century Ledger Drawings, The Lansburgh Collection, Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 10-31, 2000.
Peripheral Visions(s): Perspectives on the "Indian" image by 19th century Northern Plains warrior-artists, McMaster University Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario, August 24-December 20, 2019.
Publication History
Nineteenth-Century Ledger Drawings, The Lansburgh Collection, [brochure], Santa Fe: Nedra Matteucci Galleries, 2000, ill.
Colonel Rodney G. Thomas (United States Army, Retired), Rubbing Out Long Hair Pehin Hanska Kasota, the American Indian Story of the Little Big Horn in Art and Word, Spanaway, Washington: Elk Plain Press, 2009, p. 290, figure 17.
Colin G. Calloway, Editor, Ledger Narratives, The Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press (published in cooperation with the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire), 2012, p. 183, plate 137.
Chartrand, Rheanne, Gerald McMaster, Janet Catherine Berlo, Paul Chaat Smith, and Jeff Thomas. Revision(s). Ontario: McMaster University, 2019. page 118.
Provenance
Possibly owned by Mrs. E. P. Green, Reseda, California; Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, by 1987; acquired by present collection through a partial gift and partial purchase, 2007.
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