Western Art and Design from Bar Cross Ranch, Wyoming

Western Art and Design from Bar Cross Ranch, Wyoming

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Western Art and Design from Bar Cross Ranch, Wyoming

Elbridge Ayer Burbank

Chief Black Coyote, Arapaho

No reserve

Auction Closed

January 19, 05:21 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Western Art and Design from Bar Cross Ranch, Wyoming

Elbridge Ayer Burbank

1858 - 1949

Chief Black Coyote, Arapaho


signed E.A. Burbank and dated 1901. (lower right); inscribed (lower left); titled (upper right)

conté crayon on paper

14 ⅛ by 10 in.

35.9 by 25.4 cm.

Executed in 1901.

W.H. Sullivan (acquired directly from the artist)

Mongerson-Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago

Illinois Historical Art Project, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1997)

Nevada Fine Art LLC, Reno (acquired from the above in 2019)

Acquired from the above in 2019 by the present owner

Chief Black Coyote was a Southern Arapaho leader, whose reservation was based in Oklahoma. Burbank created several illustrations of Chief Black Coyote at the start of the twentieth century, including the present work and a small oil that resides in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's permanent collection.