The Last of His Tribe (Indian Hunter with Bow)
Ann Elisabeth L. Hobbs, American, 1828 - 1886
after George Loring Brown, American, 1814 - 1889
after George B. Ellis, American, active about 1821 - 1838
about 1845-1850
Pastel on marble-dusted drawing board
Sheet: 17 1/4 × 20 5/8 in. (43.8 × 52.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
D.961.7
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, on reverse (probably not artist's hand): Drawn by / Miss Anna Elizabeth [sic] Lancaster [sic] Hobbs / East Sanbornton / N. H.
Course History
ENGL 52, Vox Clamantis: Wilderness in 19th Century American Literature, Michael Chaney, Winter 2020
Exhibition History
American Folk Art at the Hood Museum of Art (a thematic partial permanent gallery installation); Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, July 16, 2015.
By Good Hands: New Hampshire Folk Art, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire; University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, no. 90 (as Indian Hunter with Bow), June 23, 1989-May 20, 1990.
Hail, Holy Land: The Idea of America, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, no. 6 (as "Indian Hunter with Bow"), June 27-September 7, 1980.
Images of the West: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MALS 190, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 15-August 28, 1994.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
Publication History
Robert M. Doty, By Good Hands: New Hampshire Folk Art, Hanover and London: The Currier Gallery of Art and the University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, 1990, no. 90.
Patricia Harris, Art of the State of New Hampshire, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000, 96 p., ill.
Robert L. McGrath and Members of the American Art course (Art 50), Hail, Holy Land: The Idea of America, Spring 1980, p. 32-34, no. 6.
Jeff Binder, New Hampshire, Compass American Guides, 1st edition, New York, NY: Fodor's Travel Publications / Random House, Inc., 2002, 300 pp., ill. p. 91.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 20, 72, 252-253, ill. p. 73, no. 10.
Provenance
Raymond G. Clifton (1895-1968), Pine Cupboard Antique Shop, Franklin, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1961.
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