Native American Ledger Drawings from the Hood Museum of Art
October 2, 2010, through December 19, 2010
The Mark Lansburgh Collection
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Short Bull (Tatanka Ptecela), Lakota (Sioux), about 1845–1915, untitled, page number 21 from the Short Bull Book, about 1885–90, watercolor, graphite, ink, colored pencil on wove blue lined notebook paper. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection: Gift of Ann H. and Harte C. Crow; 2005.28
Short Bull (Tatanka Ptecela), Lakota (Sioux), about 1845–1915
Untitled, page number 21 from the Short Bull Book
About 1885–90
Watercolor, graphite, ink, colored pencil on wove blue lined notebook paper.
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection: Gift of Ann H. and Harte C. Crow; 2005.28.
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White Swan, Apsaalooke (Crow), 1851–1904, untitled, about 1890, graphite and colored pencil on wove canvas paper. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection: Partial gift of Mark Lansburgh, Class of 1949, and partial purchase through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W’18 Fund and the Offices of the President and Provost of Dartmouth College; 2007.65.93
White Swan, Apsaalooke (Crow), 1851–1904
Untitled
About 1890
Graphite and colored pencil on wove canvas paper.
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection: Partial gift of Mark Lansburgh, Class of 1949, and partial purchase through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W’18 Fund and the Offices of the President and Provost of Dartmouth College; 2007.65.93.
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Unknown Southern Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) artist, untitled, page number 192 from the Old White Woman Ledger, about 1880–90, graphite, colored pencil, watercolor on wove ledger paper. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection: Partial gift of Mark Lansburgh, Class of 1949, and partial purchase through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W’18 Fund and the Offices of the President and Provost of Dartmouth College; 2007.65.71
Unknown Southern Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) artist
Untitled, page number 192 from the Old White Woman Ledger
About 1880–90
Graphite, colored pencil, watercolor on wove ledger paper.
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection: Partial gift of Mark Lansburgh, Class of 1949, and partial purchase through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W’18 Fund and the Offices of the President and Provost of Dartmouth College; 2007.65.71.
Location
Temporary Exhibitions, Gutman Gallery
About
This collection, brought together by Mark Lansburgh, Dartmouth Class of 1949, is considered to have been the largest and most diverse of its type in private hands; it was acquired by Dartmouth College in 2007. Curated by Joe Horse Capture, this exhibition features drawings depicting both the struggle for cultural survival and the Native adaptation to an imposed non-Native lifestyle during a period of profound upheaval among the Plains peoples during the second half of the nineteenth century. It is presented in conjunction with a Leslie Center for the Humanities Institute entitled Multiple Narratives in Plains Ledger Art: The Mark Lansburgh Collection.
Generously funded by Jonathan L. Cohen, Class of 1960, Tuck 1961.
Exhibition Curator
Joe Horse Capture
Additional Information
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