Donald Ellis Gallery Loans Ledger Art to the Drawing Center
The Pencil is Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists showcases an important group of Plains Indian Ledger Drawings on loan from Donald Ellis Gallery
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Ledger Drawing
attributed to Ho Na Nist To (Howling Wolf), 1849-1927
Southern Cheyenne
Central Plains
Southern Cheyenne
Central Plains
ca. 1875-78
graphite and coloured pencil on lined paper
height: 5 ⅝ "
width: 7"
Inventory # CP4212
Sold
PROVENANCE
The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection, New York, NY
This drawing is one of 36 originally contained in a small book of drawings inscribed with the name Robert Allen Guthrie, Topeka, Kansas, and bearing the date 1874
EXHIBITED
"The Pencil Is A Key: Drawings By Incarcerated Artists," The Drawing Center, New York, October 12 , 2019 - January 6, 2020
Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT, "Picturing History: Ledger Drawings of the Plains Indians", September 27 to December 20, 2017
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Native Paths: American Indian Art from the Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker, May 7, 1988 to January 2, 2000
The Dudley Peter Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, September 9, 1992 to January 15, 1993
PUBLISHED
The Allen Memorial Art Museum XLVI, pg. 19, pl. 68
"The Pencil Is A Key: Drawings By Incarcerated Artists" (Drawing Papers 140), The Drawing Center, New York, NY, 2019, pg. 34 (top)
REFERENCE
Szabo, Howling Wolf and the History of Ledger Art, 1994
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