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Metadata
Title |
Dangerous Camp in Kiowa Hollow |
Place of Origin |
Texas or Oklahoma |
Artist or Maker |
Colyer, Vincent (1825-1888) |
Date |
April 17 1869 |
Materials |
Watercolor on Paper |
Dimension Details |
Height; 4 9/16" Width: 7 3/8" |
Description |
This medium high view of a Native American encampment is shown from the opposite side of a river in the foreground. Figures and tents among a group of scrubby trees are situated along the river bank and backed by sloping hills. A lone figure and horse are seen on a distant hilltop in the middle of the painting. "dangerous Camp in | Kiowa Hollow | Sunday | April 17 1869" is written in the lower right corner of the painting. An American artist who first worked professionally in New York City, Vincent Colyer was also a humanitarian and volunteer government agent who was sent to the Southwest to supervise the disbursement of annuities promised to certain tribes by treaty. While crossing hostile territory by wagon train in Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico, he sketched hundreds of scenes such as this one. When he returned to the East Coast, he enlarged some of them into oil paintings for exhibition. |
Provenance |
Auction at original John F. Kensett house, Darien, Connecticut Purchased by Edward Eberstadt Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York Sold to The Dietrich American Foundation, 1968 |
Object Name |
Watercolor |
Object ID |
7.8.432 |
Search Terms |
paintings |