Indian Dance: The Earth Spirits
Emil Bisttram, American (born Hungary), 1895 - 1976
1933
Watercolor over graphite on very heavy wove paper
Sheet: 24 × 19 1/8 in. (61 × 48.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Evelyn Carter Giles
W.959.71.6
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: Emil Bisttram 33
Course History
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
Publication History
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, ill. p. 228.
John V. Kulvicki, On Images: Their Structure and Content, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, 258 pp., ill. p. 12.
Provenance
Evelyn Carter (Mrs. Howard) Giles (1881-1965), South Woodstock, Vermont; given to present collection, 1959.
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