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Painter:
Hartley, Marsden 1877-1943  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Culture:
Indian  Search this
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Amon Carter Museum 3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard, P. O. Box 2365 Fort Worth Texas 76113 Accession Number: 1999.8
Date:
1914
Notes:
Hole, Heather, "Marsden Hartley and the West: the search for an American Modernism," New Haven: Yale University Press; Santa Fe: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, 2007, fig. 38.
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "Marsden Hartley," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press in association with Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2002, fig. 1, pg. 70.
"An American Collection: Works from the Amon Carter Museum," New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Amon Carter Museum, 2001, pg. 170.
Haskell, Barbara, " Marsden Hartley," New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1980, fig. 36.
Summary:
Abstract image depicting overlapping rows of tepees each adorned in a red, white, and blue pattern, with a Native American figure seated in the center of the front tepee, his body wrapped in a red and blue striped blanket, and his gaze directed toward the viewer.
Topic:
Abstract  Search this
Figure male--Full length  Search this
Ethnic  Search this
Architecture exterior--Domestic--Tepee  Search this
Control number:
IAP 50900276
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_384504