Oil painting

Museum number:

17-53

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Alternate number:

57; 162 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.37 and Acc.50

Description:

Chief Blue-Horse.

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota

Culture or time period:

Sioux

Maker or artist:

Joseph Henry Sharp

Collector:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Place depicted:

Pine Ridge, South Dakota and Sioux, North Dakota

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Oil paintings (visual works)

Accession date:

January 2, 1902 and November 12, 1902

Department:

Drawings and paintings

Dimensions:

width 24.765 centimeters and height 34.925 centimeters

Title:

Chief Blue Horse. A big chief and man of much influence many years ago. (Artist's Label)

Comment:

Sioux (Pine Ridge, South Dakota). Label "Chief Blue Horse. A big chief and man of much influence many years ago." As one of the "progressives" (as contrasted with the "traditionalists") he was a man of much influence until he supported the Pine Ridge Indian Agent in his efforts to persuade the Dakota to stop the Ghost Dance ceremony which was hostile to the whites and which led eventually to the massacre of many Dakota Indians at Wounded Knee in the last serious encounter between the U.S. Army and the Plains Indians. Artist's price $150. Label from Devoe Co. academy boards, N.Y. Glass on paint surface. One in a series from life in oil by J. H. Sharp, mainly Crow, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Sioux, and Rio Grande Pueblo portraits.

Loans:

S1969-1970 #86: University of California Library (February 16, 1970–March 17, 1970), S1976-1977 #54: Charles M. Russell Museum (March 30, 1977–June 16, 1977), and S1989-1990 #12: Cowboy Hall of Fame (January 8, 1990–July 17, 1991)

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