Dancing at Poplar River
Darryl Growing Thunder, Assiniboine / Nakota / American, born about 1968
Assiniboine Nakota
Nakota (Yankton Sioux)
Northern Plains
Plains
2008
Colored pencil and ink on eight paper ledger pages
Overall: 20 5/16 × 30 1/2 in. (51.6 × 77.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Robert Strasenburgh II 1942 Fund
© Darryl Growing Thunder
2008.61
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Ledger Drawing
Research Area
Native American
Drawing
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in ink, lower to upper right: [copyright symbol] 2008 Darryl Growing Thunder ~ Assiniboine Sioux Fort Peck Resv. Montana [in script, oriented vertically to drawing with left at bottom]; titled, in ink, upper center: "Wahcinca Wakpa ekta wacipi" / Dancing at Poplar River; inscribed, in ink, throughout: [lists of names, occupations, wages, etc. in relation to the payroll, original to the ledgers, oriented with the sheet vertical to the drawing with left at top]
Course History
Studio Art 77.01, Senior Seminar II, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2023
Studio Art 77.02, Senior Seminar II, Jen Caine, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
Contemporary Native American Ledger Art: Drawing on Tradition, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 14-December 19, 2010.
Provenance
The artist, Poplar, Montana; sold to present collection, 2008.
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