The Scalp-Dance of the Sioux
c. 1842
Artist, American, 1822 - 1888

Artwork overview
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Medium
brown ink wash and graphite with scratched highlights on wove paper
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Credit Line
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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