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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.195
People
Henry Inman, American (Utica, NY 1801 - 1846 New York, NY)
Title
[Mar-ko-me-te] (Bear's Oil), Menominee Brave
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1832-1834
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/332997

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.8 x 63.5 cm (30 1/4 x 25 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, top center, black paint: 65

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mark Hollingsworth and Edmund I. Tileston (Hollingsworth and Tileston Paper Company); to Edmund P. Tileston and Amor Hollingsworth; gift of their heirs to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1882, transfer; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, gift of the heirs of E. P. Tileston and Amor Hollingsworth, 1882
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.195
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Thomas Loraine McKenney and James Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America : with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs, Vol. II, F. W. Greenough (Philadelphia, 1838), pp. 149-150, ill. of lithograph opp. p. 149
  • William Garrott Brown, A List of Portraits in the Various Buildings of Harvard University, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, MA, 1898), p. 28
  • James David Horan, The McKenney-Hall portrait gallery of American Indians, Crown Publishers Inc. (New York, 1972), pp. 325-353, ill. of lithograph
  • A Festival of Western American Art at Hirschl and Adler, October 12-November 17, 1984, auct. cat., Hirschl & Adler Galleries (New York, 1984), p. 15, no. 2-11
  • 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), pp. 29, 291-92, cat. 243, ill.
  • Cristina Morilla, "Conservation as Cultural Practice: The Portrait Collection of Indigenous Delegates by Henry Inman", Studies in Conservation (March 21, 2024), passim

Verification Level

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