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Exhibition History"Art of the American Indian: The Thaw Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, March 2, 2010 - May 30, 2010; Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN, October 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, April 24, 2011 - September 23, 2011; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, December 4, 2011 - February 12, 2012.
ProvenancePrivate collection, Devon, England; Suzi Colemares, England; William Channing, Santa Fe, New Mexico
BibliographyWilliam Channing advertisement, American Indian Art Magazine. (Vol.20, No.3) Summer 1995: inside cover.
Phillips, Ruth B. Trading Identities: The Souvenie in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998, col. pl.35.
Donald Ellis Gallery, cover and back cover, 2001. pp. 14-15.
D'Ambrosio, Paul, ed. "Tenth Anniversary of the Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art, 1995-2005." Special issue, Heritage: The Magazine of the New York State Historical Association 20 (2005), pp. 12-13.
Fognell, Eva, ed. Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, NY: Fenimore Art Museum, 2010, p. 50.
Murdock, Michelle, ed. 50 at 20: Masterpieces of American Indian Art from the Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, NY: Fenimore Art Museum, 2015, p. 12.
Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 42.
Culture
Wendat (Huron)
Miniature Settee
Datec. 1830
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/4 × 4 × 13 in. (15.9 × 10.2 × 33 cm)
Object numberT0795
Credit LineGift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextThis miniature settee may have been an elaborate piece of doll furniture, a souvenir or possibly a display model. The birchbark was manipulated to form a classic Empire-style settee which was then finished with an intricate working of moosehair embroidery. The settee decoration demonstrates the excellent command of floral imagery developed by Huron women.Exhibition History"Art of the American Indian: The Thaw Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, March 2, 2010 - May 30, 2010; Minneapolis Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN, October 24, 2010 - January 9, 2011; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, April 24, 2011 - September 23, 2011; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, December 4, 2011 - February 12, 2012.
ProvenancePrivate collection, Devon, England; Suzi Colemares, England; William Channing, Santa Fe, New Mexico
BibliographyWilliam Channing advertisement, American Indian Art Magazine. (Vol.20, No.3) Summer 1995: inside cover.
Phillips, Ruth B. Trading Identities: The Souvenie in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998, col. pl.35.
Donald Ellis Gallery, cover and back cover, 2001. pp. 14-15.
D'Ambrosio, Paul, ed. "Tenth Anniversary of the Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art, 1995-2005." Special issue, Heritage: The Magazine of the New York State Historical Association 20 (2005), pp. 12-13.
Fognell, Eva, ed. Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, NY: Fenimore Art Museum, 2010, p. 50.
Murdock, Michelle, ed. 50 at 20: Masterpieces of American Indian Art from the Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, NY: Fenimore Art Museum, 2015, p. 12.
Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 42.
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