Lot Essay
A watercolor of the same subject, also titled Shooting a Cougar, is in the collection of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Shooting a Cougar
Details
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874)
Shooting a Cougar
oil on paper laid down on paper
11 x 10 in. (27.9 x 25.4 cm.)
Shooting a Cougar
oil on paper laid down on paper
11 x 10 in. (27.9 x 25.4 cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, 1933.
Sotheby's, New York, 5 December 1996, lot 119, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Sotheby's, New York, 5 December 1996, lot 119, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
(Possibly) R. Tyler, ed., Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist on the Oregon Trail, Fort Worth, Texas, 1982, p. 332, no. 146D (as Indian Shooting a Cougar).
Exhibited
Santa Fe, New Mexico; New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist as Explorer, First Views of the American Frontier, September 10, 1999-January 29, 2000, pp. 108-09, 191, pl. 29, illustrated.
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