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 Etahdleuh Doanmoe, 1856-1887
Kiowa
Central Plains
Kiowa
Central Plains
ca. 1878
ink and watercolour on paper
height: 13"
width: 15 ½"
Inventory # P4322-220
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Inscribed “Etahdleuh Doanmoe (Kiowa)”
PROVENANCE
Acquired by Alicia “Alice” Key Pendleton, daughter of Frances Scott Key, niece of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, and wife of George Hunt Pendleton (Ohio Congressman and later Senator), and their daughter Jane, during winter vacations at Saint Augustine, Florida, 1875-78.
By descent in the family
This is the only known self-portrait depicting Etahdleuh in his full war panoply, as he most-probably appeared during the Battle of Adobe Walls, Texas, June 27, 1874. During the three years he was incarcerated at Fort Marion, Etahdleuh wisely avoided any sort of drawing that might be construed as “evidence” of battles with any White men. By 1878, when this drawing was made, he was no longer imprisoned.
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