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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 19, 2023 | Christie's | New York | 19th Century American Art | 305 | $****** - ****** | Sioux Reconnoitering |
Works on Paper
18.4 x 21.6 cm (7.25 x 8.5 in)
watercolor and gouache on paper
inscribed with title (upper right)
The artist.
Mrs. Lawrence Carton, Towson, Maryland, great-niece of the above.
William S. Reese, Baltimore, Maryland.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Lawrence Fleischman, New York.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York.
Dr. Irving Levitt, New York.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York.
Dean Krakel, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1971.
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The American Muse, April 3-May 17, 1959.
Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Americana: A Painting Survey of the American Scene from the Collection of the C. Thomas May, Jr. Family Collection, January 29-March 1976, no. 12.
College Station, Texas, Texas A&M University, The American Vision: Paintings from the C. Thomas May, Jr. Family Collection, August 23-September 19, 1982, pp. 10-11, illustrated.
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Historical Society, American Land, American People, September 20-November 14, 1982, no. 172.
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Visions of the West, September 28-November 30, 1986, no. 66, illustrated.
Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville Museum of Art; New York, The Lotos Club, The May Family Collection of American Paintings, February 7-May 1, 1988, pp. 42-43, 63, no. 16, illustrated.
Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, April 15-September 30, 1992.
H. Dorra, The American Muse, New York, 1961, p. 63, illustrated.
M.C. Ross, The West of Alfred Jacob Miller, Norman, Oklahoma, 1968.
R. Tyler, Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail, Fort Worth, Texas, p. 321, no. 38.
ALFRED JACOB MILLER (1810-1874)
Sioux Reconnoitering
inscribed with title (upper right)
watercolor and gouache on paper
7 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. (18.4 x 21.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1837-38.
