Assiniboin Encampment on the Upper Missouri, between 1860 and 1870

  • John Mix Stanley, American, 1814-1872

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 7 7/8 × 10 7/8 inches (20 × 27.6 cm)
  • 14 1/4 × 16 3/8 × 2 3/8 inches (36.2 × 41.6 × 6 cm)

Gift of Mrs. William Fitzhugh Edwards

01.6

Signed, lower left: J. M. Stanley

1901, Mrs. William Fitzhugh Edwards

1901-present, gift to the Detroit Museum of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Detroit Free Press (May 21, 1865). Kinietz, W. Vernon. John Mix Stanley and His Indian Paintings. Ann Arbor, 1942 (pl. 10). The Last Frontier. Exh. cat., Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art. Kansas City, 1957, no. 63. John Mix Stanley: A Traveller in the West. Exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art. Ann Arbor, 1969, no. 10 (ill.). The Painter Goes West. Exh. cat., East Tennessee State University. Johnson City, 1970, no. 30 (ill.). Curry, L. The American West. Los Angeles, 1972, p. 187, no. 44 (pl. 57). Lewis and Clark’s America. Exh. cat., Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, 1976, p. 45, no. 85 (ill.).

John Mix Stanley, Assiniboin Encampment on the Upper Missouri, between 1860 and 1870, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. William Fitzhugh Edwards, 01.6.