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Property from the Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island

Alfred Jacob Miller

Fort Laramie, Indian Girls Racing

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January 24, 07:00 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Bid

200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island

Alfred Jacob Miller

1810 - 1874


Fort Laramie, Indian Girls Racing

oil on canvas

10 ⅛ by 16 ⅛ in.

25.7 by 41 cm.

Decatur Howard Miller, Baltimore

Dr. William H. Crim, Baltimore

(probably) Fourth Regiment Armory, Baltimore, 22 April 1903 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Frank Sherwood Hambleton, Baltimore (acquired at the above sale)

Mr. and Mrs. J. Fife Symington, Jr., Lutherville, Maryland (acquired by descent from the above in 1908 and until circa 1994)

Private Collection, Florida

(with) Gallery of the Masters, Inc., St. Louis

Private Collection, Missouri

Gerald and Kathleen Peters, Santa Fe (acquired from the above in 1994)

(with) Gerald Peters Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in November 2012 by the present owner

Santa Fe and New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist as Explorer. First Views of the American Frontier, 1999-2000, pl. 13, p. 74; p. 75, illustrated in color

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

Robert Combs Warner, The Fort Laramie of Alfred Jacob Miller: A Catalogue of All the Known Illustrations of the First Fort Laramie, Laramie, 1979, pp. 84 and 137-38; p. 139, illustrated

Ron Tyler, Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail, Fort Worth, Texas, 1982, no. 160H, p. 257