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Seth Eastman
A Portfolio of North American Indians

SETH EASTMAN: A Portfolio of North American Indians showcases the former James J. Hill Collection of Seth Eastman watercolors. This important collection changed hands in late 1994 when it was deaccessioned by the James Jerome Hill Reference Library in St. Paul, Minnesota, and acquired by W. Duncan MacMillan of Wayzata, Minnesota.

THE FOREMOST PICTORIAL HISTORIAN of the American Indian in the nineteenth century, Seth Eastman was a career army officer and talented artist widely appreciated today for his ethnographic detail. Assigned to frontier duty, including a seven-year stint at Fort Snelling in the 1840s, Eastman set out to preserve a visual record of Indian life which was then undergoing rapid change.

Enabled by his long-term military residency among the Indians to become familiar not only with their colorful external trappings but with the whole complex fabric of Indian culture, Eastman painted all of the commonplace activities of everyday Indian life. His portfolio included scenes of winter villages and temporary summer encampments; courting and marriage customs; Indians making maple sugar, protecting their cornfields from birds, spearing fish, and gathering wild rice; the menstrual lodge, the manner in which Dakota women sat, and the medicine man with a patient; and the breaking up of camp and Indians traveling.

THE HILL COLLECTION contains fifty-six paintings the artist prepared mainly for Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's monumental six-volume work, Information Regarding the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States (1851-1857). In addition to paintings Eastman executed from his Minnesota sketches, there are also scenes based on his experiences in Texas and visits to other parts of the country; landscapes drawn from nature; maps relating to American Indian ethnography and history; paintings based upon the work of other artists; and paintings of Indian artifacts. Published together for the first time since the 1850s, these paintings comprise the largest extant collection of Eastman watercolors.
Written by:
SARAH E. BOEHMEN, CHRISTIAN F. FEEST and PATRICIA CONDON JOHNSTON
Sarah E. Boehme is the John S. Bugas Curator of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, and serves on the Wyoming Arts Council. Born and raised in Orange, Texas, she holds a master's degree and doctorate in the history of art from Bryn Mawr College and a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College. Her books include Absarokee Hut: The Joseph Henry Sharp Cabin and Buckeye Blake on the Western Front. Christian F. Feest is a professor of anthropology at the University of Frankfurt. Born in northern Bohemia, he received his doctorate in anthropology from the University of Vienna. A post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution (1972-1973) and a Ford Foundation Fellow at the Center for the History of the American Indian, Newberry Library, Chicago (1987-1988), Professor Feest is the author of Native Arts of North America and the editor of the European Review of Native American Studies. Patricia Condon Johnston has written widely on American art and history subjects. Her books include The Shape of Things: The Art of Francis Lee Jaques, Minnesota: Portrait of the Land and Its People, and Eastman Johnson's Lake Superior Indians. A native Minnesotan, she is the founding director of the Afton Historical Society Press.
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