Return from War Dance

Linda Haukaas, Lakota / American, born 1957
Lakota (Teton Sioux)
Central Plains
Plains

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2003

Colored pencil, graphite, and ink on ledger book paper

Sheet: 17 5/8 × 22 13/16 in. (44.8 × 58 cm)

Frame: 24 15/16 × 30 1/8 in. (63.3 × 76.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Alvin and Mary Bert Gutman 1940 Acquisition Fund and the Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions Fund

© Linda Haukaas

D.2004.23

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, in ink, upper left: Linda Haukaas; inscribed, in ink, top center: Return From War Dance; inscribed, in ink, upper left: Newman Grove State Bank [ledger entry]; inscribed, in ink, upper right: Newman Grove State Bank [ledger entry]; stamped, in blue ink, upper left: 440; stamped, in blue ink, upper right: 421; inscribed, in ink, bottom left to right: Sotka Miwatani Lakota Iroka; inscribed, in ink, underneath drawing, overall: [ledger entries]

Course History

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Fall 2012

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Spring 2012

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Spring 2013

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Spring 2013

NAS 30.2, ARTH 16, Plains Ledger Drawings and Their Complexities, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Spring 2014

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Spring 2014

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Fall 2014

NAS 8, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Vera Palmer, Fall 2014

SART 76, Senior Seminar I, Brenda Garand, Winter 2015

NAIS 8.01, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Heid Erdrich, Fall 2022

English 62.05, Horrors of Survival: Modern American Literature, Jamie Godley, Summer 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.

Historic and Contemporary Plains Pictographic Art, Price Dewey Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 12, 2003-January 16, 2004.

Perspectives: Native American Art from the Hood Museum of Art's Collection, Perspective in Native Studies, NAS 8, Spring 2014, Vera Palmer, Teaching Exhibition, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 24-June 16, 2014.

Picturing Change: The Impact of Ledger Drawing on Native American Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 11, 2004-May 15, 2005.

Portrait of the Artist as an Indian / Portrait of the Indian as an Artist, Harteveldt Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 17, 2019-February 23, 2020.

Publication History

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.168, no.137.

Provenance

The artist; Price Dewey Galleries Ltd., Santa Fe, New Mexico; sold to present collection, 2004.

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