Lot Essay
Related oil versions of Lassoing Wild Horses are in the collections of the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas.
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Lassoing Wild Horses
Details
ALFRED JACOB MILLER (1810-1874)
Lassoing Wild Horses
signed 'Miller' (lower left)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
8 1⁄2 x 13 in. (21.6 x 33 cm.)
Lassoing Wild Horses
signed 'Miller' (lower left)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
8 1⁄2 x 13 in. (21.6 x 33 cm.)
Provenance
The artist.
L. Vernon Miller, Baltimore, Maryland, by descent, by 1982.
Private collection, Maryland, by descent.
Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 2000, lot 165, sold by the above.
Acquired by the late owner from the above.
L. Vernon Miller, Baltimore, Maryland, by descent, by 1982.
Private collection, Maryland, by descent.
Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 2000, lot 165, sold by the above.
Acquired by the late owner from the above.
Literature
B.A. DeVoto, Across the Wide Missouri, Boston, Massachusetts, 1947, pl. LIII, illustrated.
R. Tyler, Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail, Fort Worth, Texas, 1982, p. 353, no. 444.
R. Tyler, Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail, Fort Worth, Texas, 1982, p. 353, no. 444.
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