Kurz Native American Drawings Relating to St. Joseph
Entry/Object ID
2009.3.436
Description
Kurz Native American Drawings Relating to St. Joseph. Three-ring binder of copies of drawings by Swiss artis Rudolph Kurz who traveled to fur trading posts along the Mississippi and upper Missouri Rivers from 1946-1852.
He stayed 18 months (1848-1851) in St. Joseph area and remarked about his stay in his published journal. While here he made many drawings of the local tribes in their native costumes. For a short while, while here, he married Whitthae, daughter of an Iowa chieftain. But being homesick, she returned to her people.
In 1852, the St. Joseph Museum was able to obtain seventy-seven 35mm negatives of Kurz's drawings related to the area. The drawings were part of a Mini Gallery exhibit, in 1983.
1/3-ring binder/Illustrations/77 drawings
Collection
Don and Maudie Reynolds Collection
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Drawing
Nomenclature Class
Art
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Art
Search Terms
Native American, St. Joseph History, Iowa, Western Art, Kurz, Rudolph Friederich, Native Americans in St. Joseph Area
