Big Spring’s War Record Is One of the 6 Best Works at Frieze
Artnet has selected a pictographic war record by Blackfoot artist Big Spring as one of the six best works on view at Frieze New York 2019
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Ledger Drawing
attributed to Arapaho Artist B
Henderson Ledger Book (pg. 73)
Arapaho
Central Plains
Henderson Ledger Book (pg. 73)
Arapaho
Central Plains
ca. 1880
graphite and coloured pencil on lined paper
height: 5 ¼"
width: 11 ¾"
Inventory # P4133a
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PROVENANCE
Private Collection, New Mexico
PUBLISHED
American Pictographic Images: Historical Works on Paper by the Plains Indians, Petersen, Alexander Gallery and Morningstar Gallery, 1988, pl. 73
EXHIBITED
Alexander Gallery, New York, NY, May 25 - June 22, 1988
Morningstar Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, August 19 - September 16, 1988
Featured in the Press
Restoring Native American Histories in Picture Form
An article in the New York Times examines the growing interest of dealers, collectors and academics in restoring complete sequences of nineteenth century Ledger Drawings
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