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The Trapper's Bride (detail)

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Description: The Trapper's Bride (detail)
TitleThe Trapper's Bride (detail)
Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1845
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions36 × 28 in. (91.4 × 71.1 cm)
LocationEiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsSymbolism in artFrontier and pioneer life in art
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5. The Absent Other: Women in the Land and Art of Mountain Men
Susan Prendergast Schoelwer
Description: Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West
Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West
Perhaps nowhere in western American art is the genre’s longstanding tension between...
Author
Susan Prendergast Schoelwer
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1992 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.135-165
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00038.008
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Chapter subject tags:Frontier and pioneer life in artIndian womenIndians in artInterracial marriage in artTrappers

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Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1839
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions39 1/4 × 69 1/4 in. (99.7 × 175.9 cm
LocationStark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas
http://collections.starkculturalvenues.org/objects/38332/pipe-of-peace-at-the-rendezvous
Accession number31.34.29
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Sir William Drummond Stewart Meeting Indian Chief
Posted by:John Carlson
Sep 06
Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1839
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions33 × 42 1/2 in. (83.8 × 107.1 cm)
LocationGilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/0126738
Accession number0126.738
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Sir William Drummond Stewart Meeting Indian Chief
Description: Giving Drink to a Thirsty Trapper
Giving Drink to a Thirsty Trapper
Posted by:John Carlson
Sep 06
Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1837-1838
Object typePainting
MaterialsWatercolor on paper
Dimensions8 1/16 × 7 5/16 in. (20.5 × 18.5 )
LocationBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut
http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3432115
Accession number2001474
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Giving Drink to a Thirsty Trapper
Description: Racing—near Wind River Mountains
Racing—near Wind River Mountains
Posted by:John Carlson
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Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1837–1839
Object typePainting
MaterialsWatercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on paper
Dimensions7 1/16 × 8 5/16 in. (17.9 × 21.2 cm)
LocationBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut
http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3781991
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Posted by:John Carlson
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Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob
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Creation datec. 1837
Object typePainting
MaterialsWatercolor on paper
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LocationBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut
http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3432117
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Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
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Object typePainting
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Dimensions10 3/4 × 14 1/2 in. (27.3 × 36.8 cm)
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Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1858–1860
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Accession number37.1940.42
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Description: American Progress
American Progress
Posted by:John Carlson
Sep 06
Creator nameGast, John
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation date1872
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
Dimensions12 3/4 × 16 3/4 in. (32.4 × 42.5 cm)
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http://collections.theautry.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=M545330;type=101
Accession number92.126.1
American Progress
American Progress
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Posted by:John Carlson
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Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
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https://collections.gilcrease.org/object/01261542
Accession number0126.1542
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Bourgeois W—r, & His Squaw (Mountain Man Joe Walker)
Posted by:John Carlson
Sep 06
Creator nameMiller, Alfred Jacob
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1858–1860
Object typePainting
MaterialsWatercolor on paper
Dimensions9 5/16 × 11 11/16 in. (23.7 × 29.7 cm)
LocationWalters Art Museum, Baltimore
http://art.thewalters.org/detail/14801/bourgeois-w---r-and-his-squaw/
Accession number37.1940.78
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