The Scalp-Dance of the Sioux

c. 1842

Felix Octavius Carr Darley

Artist, American, 1822 - 1888

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brown ink wash and graphite with scratched highlights on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.48 × 30.64 cm (8 1/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.4 × 45.56 cm (13 15/16 × 17 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.1015


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard A. Madigan, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 37, no. 263.

Inscriptions

lower right in brown ink: F.D.C. Darley; lower center in graphite by unknown hand: The Scalp-dance of the Sioux-; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: 332; upper right corner in graphite by unknown hand: #1

Wikidata ID

Q64561278


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