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
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Ledger Drawing
attributed to Koba (Wild Horse), 1848-1880
Kiowa
Central Plains
Kiowa
Central Plains
ca. 1875-78
recto/verso
graphite, watercolour and coloured pencil on paper
height: 8 ⅝"
width: 11 ¼"
Inventory # P4160b
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PROVENANCE
Acquired by a member of the US Senate who traveled to Fort Marion in the 19th century by descent in his family, Philadelphia, PA
EXHIBITED
"Picturing History: Ledger Drawings of the Plains Indians", Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT, September 27 - December 20, 2017"The Pencil Is A Key: Drawings By Incarcerated Artists", The Drawing Center, New York, October 12 , 2019 - January 6, 2020
PUBLISHED
"The Pencil Is A Key: Drawings By Incarcerated Artists" (Drawing Papers 140), The Drawing Center, New York, NY, 2019, pg. 35 (showing recto/verso)
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