Artist Karl Bodmer (1809 - 1893)

Dacota Woman and Assiniboin Girl

Date1994

DimensionsPlate: 19 × 13 3/4 in. (48.3 × 34.9 cm) Overall: 26 1/2 × 21 1/2 in. (67.3 × 54.6 cm)

Object numberT0616(02)i

Credit LineGift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw

Label TextBetween 1832 and 1834 Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied (a German province) traveled to the interior of North America. The artist Karl Bodmer accompanied him and sketched the land and the people as they traveled. The resulting prints were made from original etched plates and then colored with watercolors. They capture the beauty and drama of Plains Indian regalia in use.
ProvenanceElecto Historical Editions. London, England in association with Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
BibliographyEwers, John C., Marsha V. Gallagher, David C. Hunt, Joseph C. Porter. Views of a Vanishing Frontier. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Hunt, David C. and Esther Bockhoff. "Tribes of the Buffalo: A Swiss Artist and German Ethnographer Chronicle 1832 Native Plains Life." Native Peoples. Spring 1994: 48-53.

"Karl Bodmer Aquatints Show the American Frontier." Antiques and the Arts Weekly. January 6, 1995: 34.

Ewers, John C. Early White Influence Upon Plains Indian Painting: George Catlin and Carl Bodmer Among the Mandan, 1832-34. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, Vol. 134, no. 7, April 1957, p. 4-5.

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