Donald Ellis Gallery Loans Ledger Art to the Drawing Center
The Pencil is Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists showcases an important group of Plains Indian Ledger Drawings on loan from Donald Ellis Gallery
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Ledger Drawing
attributed to Etahdleuh Doanmoe, 1856-1887
Kiowa
Central Plains
Kiowa
Central Plains
ca. 1875-78
pencil, ink and watercolour on paper
height: 13"
width: 17"
Inventory # P4322-221
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Inscribed "The Indians coming from Fort Marion St. Augustine Florida, to Hampton, VA, April 1878."
PROVENANCE
Acquired by Alicia “Alice” Key Pendleton, daughter of Frances Scott Key, niece of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, and wife of George Hunt Pendleton (Ohio Congressman and later Senator), and their daughter Jane, during winter vacations at Saint Augustine, Florida, 1875-78.
By descent in the family
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