Lot 52
  • 52

Alfred Jacob Miller 1810 - 1874

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Alfred Jacob Miller
  • Two Indians Killing a Buffalo
  • signed with the artist's monogrammed signature AJMiller (lower right)
  • watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
  • 9 1/4 by 15 3/4 inches
  • (23.5 by 40 cm)

Provenance

Eugenia Miller Whyte (the artist's niece) or Louisa Whyte Norton (the artist's grandniece)
The Old Print Shop, New York, 1947
The Boatman's National Bank, St. Louis, Missouri (now Bank of America), 1947 (acquired from the above)

Exhibited

St. Louis, Missouri, The Boatman's National Bank, May 1964, no. 31 (as Buffalo Kill)
Kansas City, Missouri, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Alfred Jacob Miller: Romancing the West in the Bank of America Collection, September 2010-September 2011, no. 14, p. 102, illustrated in color p. 103

Literature

Mary Bartlett Cowdrey and Helen Comstock, "Alfred Jacob Miller and the Farthest West," Panorama, vol. 3, no. 1, August-September 1947, p. 1
Ron Tyler ed., Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail, Fort Worth, Texas, no. 367A, p. 317

Condition

This work is in good condition. There is some rippling along the left and right edges of the paper. Under UV: inpainting along the bottom edge and in the upper right quadrant. For a more detailed condition report prepared by Julius Lowy Frame and Restoring Company, Inc., please contact the American Art department.
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