Striking Back, Coming to the Rescue
Artist
Alfred Jacob Miller
(American, 1810 - 1874)
Date1837 or after
Mediumpen and ink and wash on paper
Dimensions6 15/16 x 8 9/16 inches (17.6 x 21.7 cm)
Frame: 12 1/2 × 13 5/8 × 5/8 inches (31.8 × 34.6 × 1.6 cm)
Frame: 12 1/2 × 13 5/8 × 5/8 inches (31.8 × 34.6 × 1.6 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.34.25
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextMiller was hired to document Captain William Drummond Stewart’s trip to the Rocky Mountains. He sketched scenes of adventure. In Striking Back, Coming to the Rescue, he depicted a buffalo hunt. The buffalo has brought down the horse of the Indian hunter. The hunter flees as rescuers ride up to the scene.
ProvenanceArtist; Lloyd O. Miller; L. Vernon Miller [1]; (Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York, New York)[2]; 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. Reynolds, Karen Dewees. Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1982. Includes Catalogue Raisonne by Karen Dewees Reynolds & William R. Johnston. p. 295 no. 292
| 2. “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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