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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.148
People
Seth Eastman, American (Brunswick, ME 1808-1875 Washington, DC)
Title
[O-ho-kea-pe]
Other Titles
Former Title: O-ho-kea-pe, A Sioux Hunter
Former Title: O-ho-ka-pe, A Sioux Hunter
Former Title: O-ho-ka-pe, an Indian Hunter
Former Title: O-ho-ka-pe
Former Title: O-ho-kea-pe
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1847
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/332990

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
89.2 × 64.6 cm (35 1/8 × 25 7/16 in.)
frame: 113.5 × 89.1 × 8.9 cm (44 11/16 × 35 1/16 × 3 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: Exhibitions: this was shown at the American Art Union, no. 71, Dec. 21, 1849 as 'O-Ho-Ka-Pe and Indian Hunter." need to verify this. [from label on back of ptng.]
  • inscription: bottom right, orange paint: 28292
  • inscription: verso, bottom center, black ink on canvas: L7 / SIOUX HUNTER / BY / SETH EASTMAN
  • label: verso, top center, brown label: TRACY & NEWKERK / ORNAMENTAL / Looking Glass, Portrait, and Picture Fr [paper torn] / MANUFACTURERS, / No. 118 GRAND ST. second floor, / Near Broadway, / NEW YORK. / Wm. W. Tracy / Jas. W. Newkerk. / A variety of PATTERNS constatnly on hand. Engravings FRAMED in every variety of style. / OLD FRAMES REGILT
  • label: verso, top center, brown label: No. 71 / American Art Union / [torn] ho-ka-pe- an Indian Hunter / painted by / S. Eastman / distributed December 21, 1849
  • label: verso, top center, brown label: 1882 Oct 17, / gift of / Wm. R. Pearmain / of Chelsea
  • label: verso, top center, brown label: Harvard University Portrait Collection / No. L7 / Please no not remove this object from its present / location without notifying the Registrar, /[torn] Museum of Art, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • label: verso, top center, brown paper: 71. O-ho-ka-pe, and Indian Hunter (25 x 35.) SETH EASTMAN / This is a celebrated hunter of the Sioux Nation. He is said to have killed thirteen
  • label: verso, center left, cream paper: TEL: (212) 734-8879 / FAX: (212) 288-9009 / 1400 YORK AVENUE / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10021 / GROSSO ART MOVERS, INC. / ART PACKING AND SHIPPING SPECIALISTS / P._____ __/__/__ / Inv._____ ___of___
  • label: verso, top right, yellowish tag: 82-52-10/28292A
  • inscription: verso, bottom right, black ink: 41-72-90

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sold to American Art Union, 1849; to Thomas Seward, Boston, MA; to William R. Pearmain, Chelsea, MA; his gift to Harvard College Library, 1882; transfer to Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1882, transferred; to Harvard Art Museums, 2024

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (transfer from Harvard College Library), gift of Willaim R. Pearmain, 1882
Accession Year
2024
Object Number
2024.148
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 32
  • David I. Bushnell Jr., Seth Eastman: The Master Painter of the North American Indian (Washington, DC, April 11, 1932), pp. 13
  • Mary Bartlett Cowdrey, American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art-Union: Exhibition Record, 1816-1852, New York Historical Society (New York, NY, 1953), p.125, no. 71
  • John Francis McDermott, Seth Eastman: Pictorial Historian of the Indian, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK, 1961), pp. 54, 231, no. 42
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, "Relocation and Evaluation of the Bushnell Collection of Paintings and Other Works by Early American Artists at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology" (unpublished manuscript, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 1971)., p. 20-21, 39, no. L7
  • Sarah E. Boehme, "Seth Eastman: Illustrating the Indian Condition" (1994), Bryn Mawr College, pp. 109-12, pl. 40
  • Sarah E. Boehme, Christian F. Feest, and Patricia Condon Johnston, Seth Eastman: A Portfolio of North American Indians, Afton Historical Society Press (Afton, MN, 1995), p. 13-15, fig. 5
  • Marybeth Lorbiecki, Painting the Dakota: Seth Eastman at Fort Snelling, Afton Historical Society Press (Afton, MN, 2000), ill. p. 51
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 188, cat. 140, ill.

Exhibition History

  • 1849 Exhibition, American Academy of Fine Arts, 01/01/1849 - 12/31/1849

Verification Level

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