Sketch of two Indians

Artist Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810 - 1874)

Date1837

Mediumpencil on paper

Dimensions5 1/8 x 5 inches (13 x 12.7 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.34.45_verso

ClassificationsPaper

ProvenanceCarrie C. Miller, Annapolis, Maryland[1]; (Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York, New York)[2]; 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. Reynolds, Karen Dewees. Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1982. Includes Catalogue Raisonne by Karen Dewees Reynolds & William R. Johnston. p. 338 no. 408 | 2. “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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