Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 68. Osceola as Captive in an Open Tent, Guarded by a Sentry.

Property from an Important American Private Collection

Seth Eastman

Osceola as Captive in an Open Tent, Guarded by a Sentry

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 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)