Lost on the Prairie
Artist
Alfred Jacob Miller
(American, 1810 - 1874)
Datec. 1855
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm)
Frame: 23 3/8 × 27 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (59.4 × 69.9 × 3.8 cm)
Frame: 23 3/8 × 27 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (59.4 × 69.9 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.34.1
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextMiller's painting depicts a specific incident about a lost hunter on the prairie. Yet the image inspires other interpretations. The figure on horseback looks resolutely into the distance of the vast prairie. For many viewers the painting expresses ideas about westward expansion.
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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