The Brooklyn Rail Reviews Fort Marion and Beyond
Writing for the Brooklyn Rail, Susan Harris asserts that Fort Marion and Beyond “illuminates an essential and complex piece of American art and history”
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Observing the Guards from the Fort
Nokkoist (Bear's Heart), 1851-1882
Bear's Heart Drawing Book
Cheyenne
Central Plains
Bear's Heart Drawing Book
Cheyenne
Central Plains
ca. 1876
ink, graphite and coloured pencil on paper
height: 8 ⅝"
width: 11 ⅜"
Inventory # CP4469-15
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PROVENANCE
Gifted by Richard Henry Pratt (1840-1924), commander at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, FL, to Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) on September 25, 1876
Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipple (1857-1930)
Roy Henry Robinson, Chicago, IL, acquired from the estate of the above in 1933
by descent in the family
RELATED EXAMPLES
A sketchbook attributed to Nokkoist (Bear's Heart) is in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN, No. 98.151.1 - See: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/5598/book-of-drawings-bears-heart
For a detailed history of the artist, see "Bear's Heart, The Color-bearer" in Karen Daniels Petersen, Plains Indian Art from Fort Marion, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971, pgs. 97-109
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