Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West
Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West
Property from an Important American Private Collection
Osceola as Captive in an Open Tent, Guarded by a Sentry
Session begins in
January 24, 05:00 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Bid
45,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important American Private Collection
Seth Eastman
1808 - 1875
Osceola as Captive in an Open Tent, Guarded by a Sentry
oil on canvas
24 by 36 in.
62 by 91.4 cm.
Executed circa 1840-41.
Private Collection (acquired by descent from the artist until circa 1950)
M. Knoedler & Co., New York
Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City (acquired from the above in December 1970)
Kennedy Galleries, New York (acquired by 1979)
Wunderlich & Co. Inc., New York (acquired by 1984)
Acquired from the above in 1987 by the present owner
John Francis McDermott, Seth Eastman: Pictorial Historian of the Indian, Norman, Oklahoma, 1961, pl. 28, p. 31, illustrated
Dean Krakel, Adventures in Western Art, Kansas City, 1977, p. 152
The Magazine Antiques, vol. 125, no. 6, New York, June 1984, p. 1215, illustrated in color
Brian W. Dippie, Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage, Lincoln, 1990, p. 180 (titled Osceola as Captive in a Tent, Guarded by a Sentry)
Washington, D.C., The Smithsonian Institution, The Art of Seth Eastman: A Traveling Exhibition of Paintings, 1959 - 1960, no. 7, pp. 2 and 28
Florida, The Tampa Museum, Romantic America: The Middle Decades of the 19th Century, September - December 1979, no. 44, p. 54 (titled The Captive Osceola and dated circa 1850)
New York, Wunderlich & Co. Inc., The American West: An Artistic Vision, June - August 1984, no. 1, p. 4, illustrated in color (titled The Captive Osceola)
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