Glorious America: The Wolf Family Collection
Glorious America: The Wolf Family Collection
Adolph Alexander Weinman
Chief Blackbird, Ogalalla Sioux
Auction Closed
April 20, 09:25 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Adolph Alexander Weinman
1870 - 1952
Chief Blackbird, Ogalalla Sioux
inscribed CHIEF / BLACK / BIRD /OGALALLA / SIOUX. and A·A· WEINMAN SC (on the proper left side); inscribed ROMAN BRONZE WORKS N-Y- (on the proper right side)
bronze
19 in. (48.3 cm.) high
Conceived in 1903; this example cast before 1917.
Wolf Family Collection, No. 0935 (acquired from the above on October 5, 1988)
Exh. Cat., Jackson, Mississippi Museum of Art, The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality, 2000, no. 55, pp. 86-87, illustration of another cast
Adrienne Ruger Conzelman, After the Hunt: The Art Collection of William B. Ruger, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, 2002, pp. 50-51, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections, 2007, pp. 76-77, illustration of another cast
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