Indian Dance: The Earth Spirits

Emil Bisttram, American (born Hungary), 1895 - 1976

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1933

Watercolor over graphite on very heavy wove paper

Sheet: 24 × 19 1/8 in. (61 × 48.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn Carter Giles

W.959.71.6

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, lower right: Emil Bisttram 33

Course History

ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014

ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014

Publication History

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, ill. p. 228.

John V. Kulvicki, On Images: Their Structure and Content, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 258 pp., ill. p. 12.

Provenance

Evelyn Carter (Mrs. Howard) Giles (1881-1965), South Woodstock, Vermont; given to present collection, 1959.

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