An Oasis in the Badlands - Sioux

Photograph

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Calvin University Center Art Gallery

In the sepia-toned image, a person wearing a feathered headdress sits atop a white horse that drinks from a calm river, surrounded by vast grasslands and a distant, cloudy horizon that gives a sense of tranquility and time gone by.

In the sepia-toned image, a person wearing a feathered headdress sits atop a white horse that drinks from a calm river, surrounded by vast grasslands and a distant, cloudy horizon that gives a sense of tranquility and time gone by.

Name/Title

An Oasis in the Badlands - Sioux

Entry/Object ID

2018.12.3

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Photogravure

Category

Vault, Animals, Indigenous, Landscape, People
Ethnic

Made/Created

Artist

Edward Curtis

Date made

1905

Dimensions

Dimension Description

image size

Height

12-1/2 in

Width

15-5/8 in

Dimension Description

frame size

Height

23-3/4 in

Width

27-3/4 in

Exhibition

120 Years of Photography - Images from the Collection of Dr. Robert Pool, October 26 - December 15, 2012