Kee-o-kúk, The Watchful Fox, Chief of the Tribe, on Horseback
1835
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61 × 73.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-138558
“After I had painted the portrait of this vain man at full length, and which I have already introduced, he had the vanity to say to me, that he made a fine appearance on horseback, and that he wished me to paint him thus. So I prepared my canvas in the door of the hospital which I occupied, in the dragoon cantonment; and he flourished about for a considerable part of the day in front of me, until…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1835 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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