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ALFRED JACOB MILLER (1810-1874)

Lot 305
19.01.2023 11:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 305 | ALFRED JACOB MILLER (1810-1874)
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$ 120 000 – 180 000
ALFRED JACOB MILLER (1810-1874)

Sioux Reconnoitering

inscribed with title (upper right)

watercolor and gouache on paper

7 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. (18.4 x 21.6 cm.)

Executed circa 1837-38.





Provenance

The artist.

Mrs. Lawrence Carton, Towson, Maryland, great-niece of the above.

William S. Reese, Baltimore, Maryland.

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.

Lawrence Fleischman, New York.

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.

Dr. Irving Levitt, New York.

M. Knoedler & Co., New York.

Dean Krakel, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1971.



Literature

H. Dorra, The American Muse, New York, 1961, p. 63, illustrated.

M.C. Ross, The West of Alfred Jacob Miller, Norman, Oklahoma, 1968.

R. Tyler, Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail, Fort Worth, Texas, p. 321, no. 38.



Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The American Muse, April 3-May 17, 1959.

Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Americana: A Painting Survey of the American Scene from the Collection of the C. Thomas May, Jr. Family Collection, January 29-March 1976, no. 12.

College Station, Texas, Texas A&M University, The American Vision: Paintings from the C. Thomas May, Jr. Family Collection, August 23-September 19, 1982, pp. 10-11, illustrated.

Dallas, Texas, Dallas Historical Society, American Land, American People, September 20-November 14, 1982, no. 172.

Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Visions of the West, September 28-November 30, 1986, no. 66, illustrated.

Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville Museum of Art; New York, The Lotos Club, The May Family Collection of American Paintings, February 7-May 1, 1988, pp. 42-43, 63, no. 16, illustrated.

Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, April 15-September 30, 1992.
Artist:Alfred Jacob Miller (1810 - 1874)
Applied technique:Painted, Watercolor
Auction house category:Paintings
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