Indian on Horseback

Stephen Mopope, Ka'igwu / American, 1898 - 1974
Ka'igwu (Kiowa)
Southern Plains
Plains

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1930

Watercolor on paper

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

W.935.1.82

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Native American

Watercolor

Native American: Plains

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, lower right: Mopope 30

Course History

NAS 30.1, ARTH 17, Modern Native American Art History, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013

Exhibition History

Exhibition of American Indian Painting and Crafts of the Southwest, 1915-1940, Taylor Hall, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York, February 1941.

The Arts of Native America: Studio Painting, Dartmouth College Museum & Galleries, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 8-June 3, 1979.

Publication History

Exhibition of American Indian Painting and Crafts of the Southwest, 1915-1940, Poughkeepsie: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1941, no. 33.

Provenance

Purchased by Miss Elizabeth White (1878-1972), Santa Fe, New Mexico, for Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), 1930; given to present collection, 1935.

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