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This artwork, Chief Sitting Bull (also Tatanka Iyotaka) by Edward Kemeys, is currently for sale at Conner•Rosenkranz, LLC.
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TITLE:
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Chief Sitting Bull (also Tatanka Iyotaka)
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WORK DATE:
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1884
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CATEGORY:
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Sculptures
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MATERIALS:
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Bronze bas relief in wood frame
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MARKINGS:
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Signed: E. Kemeys / artist’s device [wolf’s head in circle] (lower left)
Marked: Unmarked but cast by Winslow Bros. Company, Chicago, Illinois
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SIZE:
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26.5 x 18.875 inches
30.75 x 23 inches (frame)
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STYLE:
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Southwest Art
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PRICE*:
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DESCRIPTION:
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NOTE: Sitting Bull (c. 1831-1890) was the principal chief of the Lakota Sioux, who were driven from their reservation in the Black Hills by miners in 1876. Refusing to be transported to the Indian Territory, they took up arms. On June 25, 1876 they defeated George Armstrong Custer and his regiment at the Little Big Horn River. Sitting Bull and his followers fled to Canada, were promised a pardon, and returned to the reservation in 1881. In 1885, he appeared in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show including a tour of Europe. In 1888 at Standing Rock reservation in South Dakota, he encouraged the Sioux to refuse to sell their land. He was killed by Indian police for allegedly resisting arrest and is buried in Fort Yates, North Dakota.
"The great Sioux Medicine Man, who, in conjunction with the chiefs Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, instigated the uprising and directed the campaign which culminated in the death of General Custer and his troopers after a desperate struggle against overpowering odds, at the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876. The portrait from which the cast is made was taken soon after the surrender of the Indians, and is a pronounced likeness. The headdress of feathers is the war bonnet of the chief." (Winslow Bros. Co. advertising pamphlet)
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