Alfred Jacob Miller 1810 - 1874

Eugenia Miller Whyte (the artist's niece) or Louisa Whyte Norton (the artist's grandniece)
The Old Print Shop, 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, May 1964, no. 33
Kansas City, Missouri, The Nelson-Atkins Museum; 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. 6, p. 86, illustrated in color p. 87

Mary Bartlett Cowdrey and Helen Comstock, "Alfred Jacob Miller and the Farthest West," Panorama, September-August 1947, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 1
Ron Tyler ed., Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail, Fort Worth, Texas, 1982, no. 134, p. 242

A repaired crease is evident in the lower left corner; a paper remnant from an old hinge is evident on the reverse at the upper right; the work is hinged at upper top right and upper top left edges; 10287 inscribed in the reverse in graphite; Under UV: no apparent inpainting nor restoration is evident. Please see the below report, provided by Julius Lowy Frame & Restoring Company, Inc. The artwork is executed in watercolor, gouache, ink and pencil on a paper support which is age appropriately oxidized. The verso of the artwork has some remnants of old paper hinging, and a repair in the lower left corner, however the paper support, as well as the media layers, are in good and stable condition. Ultraviolet examination reveal a normal fluorescence of the artist's pigments with no prior restoration visible. Upon visual inspection, the artwork appears to be clean. There is an inscription at the lower left in black: Antelope, and the artwork has been hinged appropriately to an acid free mat board with Japanese tissue hinges. The artwork is in excellent condition.
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In 1837, Sir William Drummond Stewart—a retired Captain of the British army and a Scottish nobleman—invited the Baltimore painter Alfred Jacob Miller to accompany him as a commissioned artist on a trip to the Rocky Mountains, where they traveled on what would become the Oregon Trail. Depicting his daily impressions of this vast and unfamiliar environment, Antelope showcases the artist’s inimitable ability to render the idyllic—but vanishing—wilderness and fauna of the American West.