DrawingsPlains Indian19th century

Battle Scene between Plains Indians and U.S. Troops

c. 1890

Artists

Unidentified ArtistArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite and colored pencil on ruled off-white wove paper (ledger paper)

Culture

Plains Indian

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of American Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts

Dimensions

sight: 25 x 29.5 cm (9 13/16 x 11 5/8 in.) framed: 46 x 49.7 cm (18 1/8 x 19 9/16 in.)

Provenance

[Cavin-Morris, Inc., New York, NY], sold; to Didi and David Barrett (1997-2011), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2011.

Related Artworks

Drawings

Housing Development, Dessau-Törten, 1926-1928: Color scheme for walls and ceilings

Werner Jackson (b. Isaacsohn), 1926-1928

graphite, gouache, and collaged typewritten labels, on cream wove paper, tracing sheet attached

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

North Fountain, Piazza S. Pietro, Rome

Kenneth John Conant, Dec 3 1917 - Dec 16 1917

Graphite on buff wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Pennsylvania Pavilion for World's Fair, New York, 1939: Neon tube light lettering: diagram (1 1/2" = 1'-0" and full size)

E.F.N, 1939

Graphite on paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Figure Studies; verso: Sketch

Frederic Leighton, 19th century

Metalpoint on prepared paper

19th centuryBritish

Drawings

Portrait of Victor Dupré

Théodore Chassériau, c. 1840

Graphite and black crayon on off-white modern laid paper, abraded over entire surface

19th centuryFrench

Drawings

Untitled [Women in Bathing Suits]; verso: Untitled [Figures]

Lyonel Feininger, 6/12/1935

Colored crayons on paper

Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (view of Maubec, right page)

Otto Piene, 1987

Colored marker on paper

Drawings

Landscape with Tree

Louis Michel Eilshemius, 19th-20th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Figures Looking over a Ledge; Heads; Figure Study; verso: Hands, Legs, Figure

Washington Allston, 1811 - 1813

Brown ink on ivory laid paper

Transparent and opaque watercolor on white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled [Kromsdorf]

Lyonel Feininger, 7/7/1920

Black crayon on paper

20th centuryGerman