About the Artwork
Prairie Indian Encampment
ca. 1870
John Mix Stanley
1814-1872
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 9 1/8 × 14 1/8 inches (23.2 × 35.9 cm) Framed: 12 3/8 × 17 3/8 × 1 1/2 inches (31.4 × 44.1 × 3.8 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Mrs. Blanche Ferry Hooker
41.63
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Markings
Signed, lower left: J. M. Stanley
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Provenance
Dexter M. Ferry (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1941, Mrs. Blanche Ferry Hooker (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1941-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Detroit Art Loan Exhibition. Exh. cat., 1883, p. 66, no. 692a.
Kinietz, W. Vernon. John Mix Stanley and his Indian Paintings. Ann Arbor, 1942 (pl. 1).
Exhibitions of Paintings by John Mix Stanley (1814-1872), Jane C. Stanley (1863-1940), and Alice Stanley Acheson. Exh. cat., Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C., 1944.
Custer, Gen. George A. My Life on the Plains. Chicago, 1952, p. 50 (ill.).
Westward the Way. Exh. cat., City Art Museum. St. Louis, 1954, p. 112, no. 79.
“The Old Northwest Territory.” Antiques (March 1965): pp. 302-331 (ill.).
John Mix Stanley: A Traveler in the West. Exh. cat., University of Michigan Museum of Art. Ann Arbor, 1969, no. 9 (ill.).
The Painter Goes West. Exh. cat., East Tennessee State University. Johnson City, 1970, no. 29.
Curry, L. The American West. Los Angeles, 1972, p. 187, no. 41 (pl. 54).
Nottage, James H. Prairie Visions: Art of the American West. Exh. cat., Kansas Museum of History. Topeka, 1984, p. 23.
The Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, American Paintings, Vol. 1. Detroit, 1987.
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John Mix Stanley, Prairie Indian Encampment, ca. 1870, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Blanche Ferry Hooker, 41.63.
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