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| Keywords: Alfred Jacob Miller - Sioux Indians in the Mountains - Walters 371996.jpg In the spring of 1837 Captain William Drummond Stewart hired the Baltimorean Alfred Jacob Miller to accompany and record an expedition to the annual fur traders' rendezvous held in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in what is now Wyoming That autumn the artist returned east with sketches and watercolors which served as the basis for later paintings Miller observed that Americans could find in their own country a race of men equal in form and grace if not superior to the finest ideal ever dreamed of by the Greeks With the financial assistance of Baltimore collector Robert Gilmor Jr Miller studied in Europe in 1832-33 where he was attracted to the works of the Romantic artists particularly Decamps and Delacroix as well as to paintings he saw in the Louvre Museum by Dutch 17th-century masters ca 1850 oil cardboard cm 27 1 33 5 ; framed cm 45 7 52 1 5 7 accession number 37 1996 12096 C Morgan Marshall date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Gift of C Morgan Marshall 1945 The American Artist as Painter and Draftsman The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2001 The Walters' American Collection The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2005-2006 Undercover Stories in Art The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1980 Alfred Jacob Miller Maryland and the West The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore; Frostburg State University Frostburg; Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington Rockville; Washington College Chestertown 1988 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 place of origin USA Walters Art Museum license 2D 19th-century watercolor paintings in the United States Horses of Native Americans in art Paintings of Native Americans by Alfred Jacob Miller Paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller in the Walters Art Museum Sioux Fur fashion in 1850 | ||||
