Indian Encampment at Sunset
Artist
Alfred Jacob Miller
(American, 1810 - 1874)
Date1837
Mediumoil on paper
Dimensions5 x 6 7/8 inches (12.7 x 17.5 cm)
Frame: 14 1/2 × 16 3/8 × 1 1/8 inches (36.8 × 41.6 × 2.9 cm)
Frame: 14 1/2 × 16 3/8 × 1 1/8 inches (36.8 × 41.6 × 2.9 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.34.39
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextWhile camping by the lakes in Wyoming Miller soon realized that “the most favorable time to view these Lakes(to an artist especially) was early in the morning or towards sunset.” Many of his works from this journey feature camps of American Indians against a glowing sky.
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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