Collected by George Wright, United States Indian Agent at the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, USA. 1925/30, purchased by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981] in Chicago, Illinois, USA; purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA); 1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Warrior His Horse Wounded, ca. 1890
- Sioux, Native American
Pen and ink, graphite pencil, and colored pencil on wove paper, dry mounted to 2-ply mat board
- Framed: Sheet: 5 3/4 × 9 inches (14.6 × 22.9 cm) Overall (dry mount): 13 × 16 inches (33 × 40.6 cm)
Founders Society Purchase
81.233.6
Department
Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
- Sioux
- Dry mounting
- Graphite
- Mat board
- Ink
- Wove paper
- Scripts (writing)
- Colored pencils
- Man
- Autograph album
- Drawing
- Headdress
- Pictograph
- Flag
- South dakota
- Warrior
- Native american
- Horse
Details
Provenance
Published References
The American Indian, the American Flag. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, MI 1976, no. 143 (ill.). Penney, David W. Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Chandler-Pohrt Collection. Seattle and London, 1992, no. 220, p. 292.
Rights Status
Sioux, Native American, Warrior His Horse Wounded, ca. 1890, pen and ink, graphite pencil, and colored pencil on wove paper, dry mounted to 2-ply mat board. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.233.6.