A Morning in Milk River Valley, ca. 1870

  • John Mix Stanley, American, 1814-1872

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 7 7/8 × 10 inches (20 × 25.4 cm)
  • 10 1/4 × 12 1/4 × 1/2 inches (26 × 31.1 × 1.3 cm)

Gift of Mrs. Blanche Ferry Hooker

41.66

Signed, lower left: J. M. Stanley

1941, Mrs. Blanche Ferry Hooker (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1941-present, gift to the Detroit Institute 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. 11). John Mix Stanley: A Traveler in the West. Exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art. Ann Arbor, 1969, no. 11 (ill.). Gibson, A. H. Artists of Early Michigan. Detroit, 1975, p. 220 (ill.).

John Mix Stanley, A Morning in Milk River Valley, ca. 1870, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Blanche Ferry Hooker, 41.66.