Mounted Indian at Sunset

Provenance

M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York
Northern Natural Gas Company, Omaha, Nebraska, 1961
Joslyn Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, California
Zaplin Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above, 2001
Private Collection, South Carolina, acquired from above, 2001
Sale, Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2, 2004, lot 99, from above

Exhibited

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, Artists of the Western Frontier, July 3–October 17, 1976
Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York, The West as Romantic Horizon, September 14–October 2, 1981

Literature

Joslyn Museum, Artists of the Western Frontier (Omaha, NE: Joslyn Museum, 1976), 8, no. 22.
William H. Goetzmann, Joseph C. Porter and David C. Hunt, The West as Romantic Horizon (Lincoln,
NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1981), 75, no. 11.

Related Works

Indians Spear Fishing, 1862, oil on canvas, 19¼ x 29¼ inches; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Note

Melissa Webster Speidel, President of the Bierstadt Foundation and Director of the Albert
Bierstadt catalogue raisonné project, writes that this painting “may date from [Bierstadt’s] 1859 or 1863
trips West.”