Shoshone Caressing his Horse
Artist
Alfred Jacob Miller
(American, 1810 - 1874)
Date1837 or after
Mediumwatercolor with pen and ink on paper
Dimensions7 1/8 x 10 inches (18.1 x 25.4 cm)
Frame: 15 1/4 × 18 1/4 × 1 1/8 inches (38.7 × 46.4 × 2.9 cm)
Frame: 15 1/4 × 18 1/4 × 1 1/8 inches (38.7 × 46.4 × 2.9 cm)
Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965
Object number31.34.38
ClassificationsPaintings
Label TextIn Shoshone Caressing His Horse Miller portrayed the relationship between a man and his horse. He painted several versions of this subject. This one appears to be the earliest. Miller wrote that the man and horse “are friends of old, perfectly well acquainted with each other’s frailties.”
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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