Workbook Cover, ca. 1893

  • Sioux, Native American

Watercolor on cardboard

  • Overall: 10 5/8 × 8 1/2 × 9/16 inches (27 × 21.6 × 1.4 cm)

Founders Society Purchase

81.757.1A

Inscribed with red, hand-lettered title: LITTLE WHITE RIVER SCHOOL Above watercolor: ROSEBUD RES. IN SOUTH DAKOTA Dated, under watercolor: 1893 Lower center: A. D. Harpole | R. A. H[illegible]D } Teachers

I. George Wright, U.S. Indian Agent (Rosebud Agency, South Dakota, USA)

his daughter

obtained by Milford G. Chandler [1889-1981] in Chicago

purchased by Richard A. Pohrt [1911-2005] (Flint, Michigan, USA)

1981-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Sioux, Native American, Workbook Cover, ca. 1893, watercolor on cardboard. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 81.757.1A.