Alfred Jacob Miller 1810 - 1874

Eugenia Miller Whyte (the artist's niece) or Louisa Whyte Norton (the artist's grandniece)
The Old Print Shop, New York, 1947
The Boatman's National Bank, St. Louis, Missouri (now Bank of America), 1947 (acquired from the above)

St. Louis, Missouri, The Boatman's National Bank, 1964, no. 56
Kansas City, Missouri, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Alfred Jacob Miller: Romancing the West in the Bank of America Collection, September 2010-September 2011, no. 1, p. 76, illustrated in color p. 77

Mary Bartlett Cowdrey and Helen Comstock, "Alfred Jacob Miller and the Farthest West," Panorama, vol. 3, no. 1, August-September 1947, p. 1
Ron Tyler ed., Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail, Fort Worth, Texas, 1982, no. 58E, p. 212

This work is in good condition. There are a few losses to the paper along the left edge and lower left corner, as well as two repaired tears at the lower left and right corners. Under UV: scattered pindots of inpainting in the upper and lower right quadrants. For a more detailed condition report prepared by Julius Lowy Frame and Restoring Company, Inc., please contact the American Art department.
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