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Large Charcoal Portrait of White Calf Attributed on Verso to Amos

Currency:USD Category:Western Americana Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 500.00 USD
Large Charcoal Portrait of White Calf Attributed on Verso to Amos
Amos Bad Heart Bull, (1869-1913), was a Sioux artist known particularly forhis extensive ledger drawings chronicling the Ogalata Lakota from before 1856 throughh 1903, capturing everything from daily life to the Battle of Little Big Horn. The series was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1967 as A Photographic history of the Ogalata Sioux.

Amos was known for reproducing traitional hide paintings in ledger books, and we can find no reerence to his doing other styles of art. However, the reverse
side of this portrait is marked in pencil "White Calf 1888" and "Amos Bull Artist". Regardless of the identity of the artist it is a fine representation of a Sioux warrior holding a tomahawk and wearing an Eastern-style hat in what appears to be the original frame. Two fairly minor edge tears and some lightwater staining do not detract badly. 14.5" x 21.5" framed.
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