Untitled (Howling Wolf with his War Horse), from the "Robert Allen Guthrie Notebook"
Howling Wolf (Ho-na-nist-to), Southern Tsistsistas / American, 1849 - 1927
Southern Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Central Plains
Plains
about 1874-1875
Ink, colored pencil, watercolor, and graphite on wove blue lined notebook paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 5 11/16 × 7 3/16 in. (14.5 × 18.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection; Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
2006.51
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Ledger Drawing
Research Area
Native American
Drawing
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed by the artist, in iron gall ink, top right: Howling Wolf; stamped, on reverse, lower right, in blue ink with graphite: LANSBURGH [semi-circle] / in graphite: 1987; reverse: [no drawing]
Course History
ARTH 82, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2012
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2012
NAS 30.2, ARTH 16, Plains Ledger Drawings and Their Complexities, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II/III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2014
ARTH 83, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2015
Exhibition History
American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.
Native American Ledger Drawings from the Hood Museum of Art: The Mark Lansburgh Collection, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 2-December 19, 2010.
Nineteenth-Century Ledger Drawings, The Lansburgh Collection, Nedra Matteucci Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 10-31, 2000.
Picturing Change: The Impact of Ledger Drawing on Native American Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 11, 2004-May 15, 2005.
Publication History
Szabo, Joyce M. 1994. Howling Wolf and the History of Ledger Art. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 136, no. 108.
Nineteenth-Century Ledger Drawings, The Lansburgh Collection, [brochure], Santa Fe: Nedra Matteucci Galleries, 2000, ill.
Barbara Thompson, Picturing Change: The Impact of Ledger Drawing on Native American Art, [brochure], Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2004, p. 4, fig. 3.
Colin G. Calloway, Editor, Ledger Narratives, The Plains Indian Drawings of the Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press (published in cooperation with the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire), 2012, p. 78, plate 34; p. 193, figure 4.5.
Provenance
Possibly from the ledger book owned by Robert Allen Guthrie, Topeka, Kansas, 1874; Joe Rivera, Mission, South Dakota [in partnership with Dennis Lessard, scholar of Native American Art]; to H. Malcolm Grimmer, Santa Fe, New Mexico; sold to Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, about 1981; sold to Mark Lansburgh, Santa Fe, New Mexico, about 1988; sold to present collection, 2006.
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