Virtual ExhibitsTitle:
BEN AMERICAN HORSE, OGALALA
Artist:
Scheuerle, Joe (1873-1948)
Medium:
Watercolor/Gouache
Date:
1909
Source:
Nippert Collection of Joseph Scheuerle Portraits, donated by Alfred K., Jr. and Kathye H. Nippert
Object ID:
2016.71.03
Description:
On the back Scheuerle wrote, "My good friend Ben American Horse, Jr., son of the famous Chief American Horse - painted July 4, 1909. Lighting struck his brother Tom's teepee the night of July 3 - 1909 and killed his sister in law at the White Clay Camp, 25 miles north of Pine Ridge Agency. I was present in a nearbye [sic] home Gillespie the night of the storm, it was awful, the following morning I drove over to the camp, where all were mourning the death of Tom's wife, they buried her the same eve, July 4th."
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Painting, Ben American Horse Ogalala, 2016.71.03 (front)
Painting, Ben American Horse, Ogalala, 2016.71.03 (back)
Painting, Ben American Horse Ogalala, 2016.71.03 (front)
Painting, Ben American Horse, Ogalala, 2016.71.03 (back)
