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Western Landscape c. 1847/1849 Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
View Of Mt. Graham 1846 Private collection: Alice Acheson Washington, D.C. | Mount Graham is a mountain in southeastern Arizona in the United States, in the Coronado National Forest. It is the highest mountain in the Pinaleno Mountains. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
View In The Sierra Mimbres 1847 Stark Museum of Art Orange, TX | This mini-exhibit explores landscape imagery resulting from the United States War with Mexico of 1846-1848. Sketches in oil and illustrations in rare books document additions to the United States territory. One surveyor wrote that peculiarities of the arid plains and deserts seem to “fit them for the habits of the camel.” | Unrated | Anonymous | |
Valley Of The Mimbres 1846 Private collection: Alice Acheson Washington, D.C. | The Mimbres Valley AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in southwestern New Mexico near the towns of Deming and Silver City. | Unrated | Anonymous | |
The Williamson Family ca. 1841–42 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | 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 | |
The Buffalo Hunt 1855 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bentonville, AR | 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 | |
Prairie Indian Encampment c. 1870 Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI | Unrated | Anonymous | ||
Pontiac Chief Oil Detroit Historical Society, Detroit Historical Museum Detroit, MI | Unrated | Anonymous |
- John Mix Stanley