His Kit

Artist Walter Ufer (American, 1876 - 1936)

Date1926

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensions25 1/8 × 30 1/8 inches (63.8 × 76.5 cm)
Frame: 33 1/4 × 38 3/8 × 3 inches (84.5 × 97.5 × 7.6 cm)

Credit LinePurchased by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1978

Object number31.5.4

ClassificationsPaintings

Label TextUfer’s painting combines landscape with figure painting. He portrays the landscape under a searing light with its scruffy sagebrush, rough terrain, and distant blue mountains. The Indian with his packhorses seems unified with the land. Yet with his bright white shirt and red bandanna, he does not present the romanticized image of the Indian of the past.

ProvenanceUniversity of Notre Dame; John Connally, Texas; W. McAdoo, Albuquerque, New Mexico; H.C. Lewis, Lubbock; purchased Janurary 20, 1978 through (Gerald Peters, Santa Fe, New Mexico) by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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