Charles Bird King

17 ½ by 13 ⅝ in.

44.5 by 34.6 cm.

Estate of the artist

Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island (acquired by bequest from the above in September 1862)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 21 May 1970, lot 14 (consigned by the above)

Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa (acquired at the above sale and until at least 1978)

Private Collection, Santa Fe (acquired from the above by 1988)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The American Indian Visitors to Washington in the 1820s and 1830s, 1973

Alabama, Huntsville Museum of Art, 1975

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, 1977

Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, The Paintings of Charles Bird King (1785-1862), 1977-78, no. 420, p. 179, illustrated

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, Blackhawk and Keokuk, 1978-79

Los Angeles, Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum; Youngstown, Ohio, Butler Museum of Art and Denver Art Museum; Indianapolis, Eiteljorg Museum and Virginia, Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, The West Explored: The Gerald Peters Collection of Western American Art, 1988-90, pl. 1, pp. 15 and 86; p. 17, illustrated in color

Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, The American West: l'arte della frontiera americana, 1830 - 1920, 1993-94, p. 166; p. 167, illustrated in color

Billings, Montana, Yellowstone Art Museum, Lewis and Clark’s West: Early Views of the Missouri and Yellowstone River Country, 2003

Arizona, Scottsdale Museum of the West, Fine Art of the American West: People and Places, 2015

Cody, Wyoming, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 2015-16 (on loan)

Redwood Library and Athenaeum, ed., Annual Report of the Directors of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island, 1862, no. 175, p. 57

Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Catalogue of Pictures, Statuary, &c., Belonging to the Redwood Library, Newport, Rhode Island, 1885, no. 175, p. 10

Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1953, p. 471

Herman J. Viola, The Indian Legacy of Charles Bird King, Washington, D.C., 1976, p. 95, illustrated in color; p. 140

Kathryn Sweeney Hight, The Frontier Indian in White Art, 1820-1876: The Development of a Myth, Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1989, fig. 17, p. 65; p. 315, illustrated 

Timothy W. Luke, Shows of Force: Power, Politics, and Ideology in Art Exhibitions, Durham, North Carolina and London, 1992, p. 59

Adriana Polveroni, “Augh, arrivano i Loro,” L’Espresso, vol. XXXIX, no. 43, 5 December 1993, p. 134, illustrated in color