Lot Essay
RELATED LITERATURE:
M.C. Ross, The West of Alfred Jacob Miller, 1837, Oklahoma City, 1968, p. 47, illus.
Alfred Jacob Miller was chosen by Sir William Drummond Stewart for his historic expedition to the Far West in 1837 to document the scenery and events of the journey. Miller executed over 200 annotated sketches during this expedition, one of which was Indian Girl Swinging. It was, according to Miller, "a single incident that arrested the Artist's eye." Observing the young, frolicsome Indian girl, he wrote:
The common earth, the air, the skies,
To her were opening paradise.
That floats as wild as mountain breezes,
Leaving every beauty free
To sink or swell as Heaven pleases (Ross, p. 146)
A watercolor of the same subject is in the collection of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore.
M.C. Ross, The West of Alfred Jacob Miller, 1837, Oklahoma City, 1968, p. 47, illus.
Alfred Jacob Miller was chosen by Sir William Drummond Stewart for his historic expedition to the Far West in 1837 to document the scenery and events of the journey. Miller executed over 200 annotated sketches during this expedition, one of which was Indian Girl Swinging. It was, according to Miller, "a single incident that arrested the Artist's eye." Observing the young, frolicsome Indian girl, he wrote:
The common earth, the air, the skies,
To her were opening paradise.
That floats as wild as mountain breezes,
Leaving every beauty free
To sink or swell as Heaven pleases (Ross, p. 146)
A watercolor of the same subject is in the collection of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore.