Old Time War Dancer
James Auchiah, Ka'igwu / American, 1906 - 1975
Ka'igwu (Kiowa)
Southern Plains
Plains
1930
Opaque watercolor on green wove paper
Sheet: 9 7/16 × 6 5/8 in. (24 × 16.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
W.935.1.76
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Native American
Watercolor
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right corner: Auchiah - 30
Course History
NAS 30.1, ARTH 17, Modern Native American Art History, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
Exhibition History
Exhibition of American Indian Painting and Crafts of the Southwest, 1915-1940, Taylor Hall, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York, February 1941.
Indian Fair, Kiowa, Oklahoma, 1930, First Prize.
The Arts of Native America: Studio Painting, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 8 - June 3, 1979.
Publication History
American Magazine of Art, 1932, p. 91.
Exhibition of American Indian Painting and Crafts of the Southwest, 1915-1940, Poughkeepsie: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1941, no. 28.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 108, ill. p. 225.
Provenance
Purchased for Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948) by Miss Elizabeth White (1878-1972), Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1930; given to present collection, 1935.
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