Pa-ris-ka-roo-pa
Artist
George Catlin
(American, 1796 - 1872)
Date1852
Mediumpencil and watercolor on cardboard
DimensionsSheet: 17 3/8 x 22 3/4 inches (44.1 x 57.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number11.77.2.G
ClassificationsPaper
DescriptionPages are now separate. Original worn buckrum binding, black leather corners and spine, gold lines. Encased in a red portfolio.Label TextIn the 1830s, Catlin traveled to the West to record and document Indian peoples and their customs. He painted nearly 500 portraits and scenes of life. Later, he used his paintings to make other versions, such as this image of Par-is-ka-roo-pa (the Two Crows). Catlin depicted the head chief of the Crow, on his favorite war horse. The artist wrote that he depicted Two Crows “as he reviews his warriors in a war-parade.” “This proud chief exhibited his beautiful dress and his wild horse in this manner around me the greater part of a whole day.”
ProvenancePurchased June 11, 1956 through (Charles Eberstadt, Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York, New York) 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
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