Setting Traps for Beaver
Artist
Alfred Jacob Miller
(American, 1810 - 1874)
Dateafter 1837
Mediumoil on academy board mounted to wood panel
Dimensions7 x 10 inches (17.8 x 25.4 cm)
Other: 7 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches (18.7 x 26.7 cm)
Frame: 9 7/8 × 13 1/8 × 1 1/8 inches (25.1 × 33.3 × 2.9 cm)
Other: 7 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches (18.7 x 26.7 cm)
Frame: 9 7/8 × 13 1/8 × 1 1/8 inches (25.1 × 33.3 × 2.9 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.34.12
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextCaptain William Drummond Stewart, a Scottish aristocrat, hired artist Alfred Jacob Miller to portray his trip to the Rocky Mountains. For Stewart, America represented a great adventure. They journeyed with a caravan bringing supplies to the men who trapped beaver for the fur trade. Miller documented the life of the mountain men, with a sometimes romanticized view.
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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