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![]() | Ko-rak-koo-kiss, A Towoccono Warrior 1844 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() This highly staged and idealized image shows the warrior posed dramatically on his stallion, which, suspended in the air, looks more like a rocking horse than a live animal. | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Mountain Landscape With Indians 1870/1875 Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Oregon City On The Willamette River ca. 1850-1852 Amon Carter Museum of American Art Fort Worth, TX | ![]() Description: View looking down from a plateau high above the sprawling town of Oregon City along the banks of the Willamette River. In the foreground, a Native American couple stands on a rocky hillside, their attention directed away from the activity taking place in the town below them. | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Osage Scalp Dance 1845 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Melodramatic tales of scalping were popular in Europe and the United States throughout the nineteenth century. John Mix Stanley’s operatic scene shows a villain wielding a war club over a desperate woman's head. A hero who wears a presidential peace medal blocks the club with his spear. By the time Stanley painted this canvas, the government had... | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | Passing An Obstruction: Mouth Of Might Creek 1846 Private collection: Alice Acheson Washington, D.C. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Pontiac Chief Oil Detroit Historical Society, Detroit Historical Museum Detroit, MI | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Prairie Indian Encampment c. 1870 Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | Return Of The Hunting Party 1855 Stark Museum of Art Orange, TX | ![]() Typically, Stanley portrayed a moment after an event, as is seen in this painting of three Indians who have successfully killed a deer, stopped to rest and are engaged in the rite of smoking Kinnikinnick as a way of giving thanks to the animals they hunt for sustenance. | Unrated | Anonymous |
![]() | The Buffalo Hunt 1855 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bentonville, AR | Unrated | Anonymous | |
![]() | The Trial Of Red Jacket 1869 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | ![]() Red Jacket (1758-1830) was a famous leader of the Seneca tribe of the Iroquois Nation. In this ambitious painting, John Mix Stanley showed the chief defending himself against a charge of witchcraft. Under his white robe is the red jacket given to him by a British officer for his help as a messenger during the American Revolution. Stanley trained as a... | Unrated | Anonymous |
- John Mix Stanley