LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

36 x 50 in. (91.4 x 127 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

New York, American Art-Union Exhibition, 1848. Cody, Wyoming, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Whitney Western Art Museum, The Winchester Bicentennial, April 15-October 15, 1976. Cody, Wyoming, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Whitney Western Art Museum, The Feathered Cape, April 1997.

Literature:

District School Journal of the State of New York, Syracuse, New York, December 1, 1848, p. 144. M.E. Thistlethwaite, The Image of George Washington: Studies in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American History Painting, New York, 1979, pp. 17, 232, no. 29, illustrated. New York Historical Society, Collections of the New York Historical Society: The John Watts De Peyster Publication Fund Series, New York, 1953, p. 337. S. Boehme, E.J. Hansen, “The Feathered Cape and Painted Proof: Stearns Painting Resolves Mystery on Origin of Unusual Feathered Capes,? Points West, Cody, Wyoming, 1997, illustrated. J.L. Glickman, Painted in Blood: Remember Wyoming, America’s First Civil War, Cody, Wyoming, 1997, illustrated. N. Lurie, D. Anderson, “A Lost Art Form,? Museum Anthropology Journal, vol. xxii, no. 2, Arlington, Virginia, 1998, cover illustration. P.R. Anawalt, The Worldwide History of Dress: The Origins of Fashion from the Paleolithic to the Present, New York, 2007, p. 370, illustrated. H. Adams, What's American About American Art? A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 2008, p. 21 (as Washington and the Indian Council).

Provenance:

The artist. American Art-Union, New York, commissioned from the above. Rockwood Barrett, Rutland, Vermont, acquired from the above, 1848. J.N. Bartfield Gallery, New York. W.E. Weiss, 1975. Mr. & Mrs. William D. Weiss, Jackson, Wyoming, by descent. Coeur d'Alene, Reno, Nevada, 26 July 2003, lot 120. Acquired by the late owner from the above.