Painting : 2017.74.01

Title:

LOTTIE

Artist:

Scheuerle, Joe (1873-1948)

Medium:

Watercolor

Date:

1915

Source:

Gift Joe Scheuerle's grandson Bill Grierson and wife Pat

Object ID:

2017.74.01

Description:

On the back of this painting Scheuerle describes a humorous encounter between Lottie, her two friends and Scheuerle at a popular bathing spot along the river, "A strapping daughter of the Crow Tribe, very attractive about 35 years old and weighed 200 lbs. She and two other women wanted to go swimming one day in the Little Big Horn River. I was sketching on the other side of the river and they called to me to move. I thought they wanted to go in swimming & didn't care to move, or stop working. Finally they decided to go in anyway, and dropped their one piece garment and came down the bank in the nude, 'who cared?' After they were sitting in the water, they made faces at me & stuck out their tongues. The water in that river is very cold, a mountain stream, so they didn't stay in long, and climbed back up the bank again, one behind the other, like three fat ducks, to my great amusement, and their own and disappeared in the sage brush - Crow agency Mont Sep 1915."

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Painting, Lottie, 2017.74.01 (front)

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