A watercolor of an Indigenous man on horseback dressed in regalia.

Powder Face Arapaho

Charles M. Russell (1864-1926)

Date

1903
Medium

Opaque and transparent watercolor over graphite underdrawing on paper
Dimensions

12 x 9 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.l. signed and dated.: C M Russell \ [skull] 1903
Verso:
u.l. in graphite: for post card \ 7 [or 2] x 5-1/2 to [illeg]
u.c. in graphite in artist's hand: Powder Face \ Arapahoe
c.l. in graphite: Rcd. 1-28-07 x[circled] 1-30-107 R ?
c. in ink: Indian on Horseback
c.r. in graphite: 16 6-1/2
Collection Name

Amon G. Carter Collection
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Amon G. Carter Collection by gift of Pauline French in 1948
Accession Number

1961.161
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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