Indian Dance: Humming Birds
Emil Bisttram, American (born Hungary), 1895 - 1976
1933
Watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Overall: 24 × 19 1/16 in. (61 × 48.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn Carter Giles
W.959.71.5
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower right: Bisttram 33
Course History
ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States, Mary Coffey, Winter 2015
ARTH 71, The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States. Mary Coffey, Winter 2015
Exhibition History
Exhibition of water colors by Emil Bisttram, Delphic Studios, New York, October 30-November 12, 1933.
Images of the West: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MALS 190, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 15-August 28, 1994.
Publication History
Exhibition of water colors by Emil Bisttram, Delphic Studios, New York, 1933, checklist, no. 8.
Ralph M. Pearson, Experiencing American Pictures, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1943, p. 206, fig. 110.
Provenance
Evelyn Carter (Mrs. Howard) Giles (1881-1965), South Woodstock, Vermont; given to present collection, 1959.
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