The Historian Native American Indian Pictograph Art

by Peter Ogden

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The Historian Native American Indian Pictograph Art

Artist

Peter Ogden

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

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This is a restored copy of The Historian, 1902, oil on canvas by Eanger Irving Couse, famous painter of Native American genre subjects. This illustration was published in The How and Why Library by Eleanor Stackhouse in 1919.
In this painting a native American artist is painting in sign language, on buckskin, the story of a battle with American Soldiers. When exhibited at the National Academy this picture was considered one of the most important paintings of the year. See if you can find the sign of the Indians, the United States Calvalry and the officer in command. The dots he is making are "bullets."

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January 22nd, 2020

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