Indians Pursuing an Elk

Artist Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810 - 1874)

Date1837

Mediumwatercolor with pen and ink on paper

Dimensions6 5/8 x 11 7/8 inches (16.8 x 30.2 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.34.22

ClassificationsPaintings

DescriptionSketch of man's head on reverse.

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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