Ledger Drawing
Mad Bull Ledger Book (pg. 8)
Southern Arapaho
Central Plains
ca. 1880
recto/verso
graphite and coloured pencil on lined paper
height: 6"
width: 14 ¾"
Inventory # P4353-8
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These 15 drawings are closely related to two books of drawings collected between 1882 and 1884 at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, Oklahoma (see: Sotheby’s, New York, June 4, 1997, lot 97, and Sotheby’s, New York, December 4, 1997, lot 447). The verso of the present drawing contains handwritten collection notes by Palmer Tilton, Lieut. 20th US Infantry.
PROVENANCE
Collected at Fort Reno, Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, Oklahoma, by Palmer Tilton, Lieut. 20th US Infantry and subsequently gifted on March 27th, 1884 to E.F Riggs, Esq.
Donald Ellis Gallery, New York, NY
Private Collection, Toronto, ON
REFERENCE
An undated photograph of Mad Bull from the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Cat. Nr. 4327.3764