Hunting the Elk
Artist
Alfred Jacob Miller
(American, 1810 - 1874)
Dateafter 1837
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61 cm)
Frame: 23 3/8 × 27 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (59.4 × 69.9 × 3.8 cm)
Frame: 23 3/8 × 27 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (59.4 × 69.9 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.34.2
ClassificationsPaintings
Provenance(Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York, New York)[1]; purchased February 10, 1958 by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
| 1. “We have been some ten or a dozen years amassing the rest of this collection from various individuals who were direct descendents[sic] of the pioneer artist himself.” (excerpt from a letter to HJLS from Charles Eberstadt dated November 26, 1957)
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