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3 Study Sketches for "Tomahawk and Long Rifle"
Artist
Koerner, William (Wilhelm) Heinrich Detlev
(1878 - 1938)
Datecirca 1928
Mediumgraphite on paper
Dimensionsimage (each): 6 1/2 × 7 in. (16.5 × 17.8 cm)
frame: 16 3/4 × 33 3/4 in. (42.5 × 85.7 cm)
frame: 16 3/4 × 33 3/4 in. (42.5 × 85.7 cm)
ClassificationsART, 2-DIMENSIONAL
Credit LineGift of Robert F. Rockwell III
Object number2005.3.a-c
DescriptionThree sketches showing progression of image in painting "Tomahawk and Long Rifle" (see # 78.36 F); from left to right in frame: (a) sketch with opposite view of final painting with group of Native Americans entering stockade from right and confronting some white people at left; Native American leader with raised tomahawk, at center right, against white man, pointing long rifle at him at center left; stockade walls in background; (b) simplistic view of scene in (a); only principle figures in center depicited; Native American leader with hands at side rather than raising tomahawk, but white man still pointing long rifle at him; (c) detailed sketch similar to final painting; sketch, unrelated to painting on verso of one of these sketches - two Native Americans along bank looking at something on groundCollections
- Art of the American West
Not on view
Remington, Frederic Sackrider
1900