Indian Telegraph

1860

John Mix Stanley American, 1814-1872

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American, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Indian Telegraph

Artwork Date 1860

Artist John Mix Stanley

Life Dates 1814-1872

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 20 × 15 1/2 inches (50.8 × 39.4 cm) Framed: 27 3/8 × 23 3/8 × 2 7/8 inches (69.5 × 59.4 × 7.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Detroit Museum of Art Purchase, Popular Subscription Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 01.2

Markings

Signed Signed and dated, lower left: J. M. Stanley | 1860

Inscriptions Inscribed, on the back of the canvas, beneath lining: The scene is laid amidst the rugged ground of the Gila river country and represents a party of Apaches advising their friends of the advance of General Kearney's expedition. In the foreground stands a high rock, iluminated by the rays of the declining sun. A party of Apaches are approaching while two have already scaled the rocks and one of them is waving a smoking foggot on high and the other is shading his eyes from the sun's rays with his hand. In the distance, across the valley to the left, a faint streak of smoke rises from behind a hill, which appears to be the answer to the signal. A mountain range dimly looming up on the horizen completes the picture.

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1868, Mrs. M. Noble Brainard

1901-present, purchase by the Detroit Museum of Art (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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