Medicine Bull
Artist
Alexander Gardner
(American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882)
Date1867
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 18 5/16 × 14 11/16 inches (46.51 × 37.31 cm)
Mount: 24 1/16 × 19 inches (61.12 × 48.26 cm)
Mount: 24 1/16 × 19 inches (61.12 × 48.26 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2008.67.4
Signednone
InscribedOn mount recto, lower right corner, in pencil: "Medicine Bull"
MarkingsOn mount verso, top left corner, in pencil "THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY";
On mount verso, top right corner, in black pen: "40.1136";
On mount verso, center, in pencil: "WRHS NEG AVAILABLE"
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DescriptionImage of Native American standing on patterned rug with blank wall behind; man wears two feathers on his head, has an animal skin shawl on his shoulders, and wears moccasins.Exhibition HistoryRotation 8. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 12 – October 11, 2010, no. cat.
Rotation 17. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 6, 2014 – January 11, 2015, no. cat.
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