About the Artwork
A Halt on the Prairie for a Smoke
between 1860 and 1872
John Mix Stanley
1814-1872
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 8 7/8 × 11 1/4 inches (22.5 × 28.6 cm) Framed: 14 1/4 × 16 3/8 × 2 3/8 inches (36.2 × 41.6 × 6 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Mrs. William Fitzhugh Edwards
01.7
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Markings
Signed, lower left: J. M. Stanley
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Provenance
1901, Mrs. William Fitzhugh Edwards
1901-present, gift to the Detroit Museum of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Detroit Free Press (May 21, 1865).
Kinietz, W. Vernon. John Mix Stanley and His Indian Paintings. Ann Arbor, 1942 (pl. 6).
Exhibition of Paintings by John Mix Stanley (1814-1872), Jane C. Stanley (1863-1940), and Alice Stanley Acheson. Exh. cat., Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C., 1944, no. 5.
John Mix Stanley: A Traveller in the West. Exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art. Ann Arbor, 1969, no. 12 (ill.).
Curry, L. The American West. Los Angeles, 1972, p. 187, no. 45 (pl. 58).
The American Frontier: Images and Myths. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1973, no. 68.
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John Mix Stanley, A Halt on the Prairie for a Smoke, between 1860 and 1872, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. William Fitzhugh Edwards, 01.7.
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