The Seven Best Booths at TEFAF New York 2022
ARTnews lists Donald Ellis Gallery’s presentation of historical Native American art as one of the seven best booths at TEFAF New York Spring 2022
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Chief Killer among the Turkies
attributed to Noh Hu Nah Wih (Chief Killer), 1849-1922
Cheyenne
Central Plains
Cheyenne
Central Plains
ca. 1875-78
graphite, crayon and coloured pencil on paper
height: 8 ½"
width: 11"
Inventory # P3922
Sold
Recto inscribed “Chief Killer among the Turkies on the Canadian O.I.": Verso inscribed “Kiowa Camp at Ft Sill”
Exhibited
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Native Paths, American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker, May 7, 1998 to January 2, 2000
National Museum of the American Indian, First American Art, The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection, April 24, 2003 to May 29, 2006
Fairfield University Art Museum, Picturing History: Ledger Drawings of the Plains Indians. Fairfield, CT, September 27 - December 20, 2017
Published
Native Paths, Wardwell, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998, pg. 22
First American Art, Bernstein and McMaster, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2004, pg. 97
Featured in the Press
Critic Spotlights Prison Art, Including Ledger Drawings
Jillian Steinhauer from the New York Times reviews a Drawing Center exhibition featuring Plains Ledger Drawings on loan from Donald Ellis Gallery
Related Exhibitions
Keeping Time: Ledger Drawings and the Pictographic Traditions of Native North Americans ca. 1820-1900
In collaboration with TrépanierBaer Gallery
June 14 – August 22, 2014
TrépanierBaer Gallery, Calgary, Canada
