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E. A. Burbank Indian Portraits, Drawings
Collection
Identifier: Oversize-Ayer-Art-Burbank.Drawings
Abstract
Collection of over 1200 red and brown conté crayon on paper portraits of assorted American Indian subjects drawn during E. A. Burbank’s extensive travel to American Indian communities throughout the American Southwest, West, and Northwest. Commissioned to paint a portrait of Chief Geronimo by his maternal uncle, Edward E. Ayer, the Newberry benefactor and president of the Field Columbian Museum, Burbank embarked in 1897 on what would turn out to be a decades-long, quixotic quest to “paint every...
Dates:
approximately 1897-1914
E. A. Burbank Indian Portraits, Paintings
Collection
Identifier: VAULT.oversize-Ayer-Art-Burbank.Paint
Abstract
Collection of twenty-five oil paintings on canvas and panel executed by E. A. Burbank during the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Predominately composed of intimately-scaled portraits of American Indian men and women, this collection offers invaluable insight into the pictorial depiction of the American Indian during the turn of the twentieth century as well as the cultural cache attached to the depiction of native subjects.
Dates:
1897-1908
E. A. Burbank Indian Portraits, Prints
Collection
Identifier: Oversize-Ayer-Art-Burbank.Prints
Abstract
Collection of photogravures, colortype lithographs, and other offset color prints of drawings and oil paintings by E. A. Burbank. Consisting primarily of prints of oil paintings included in Burbank’s extensive series of American Indian portraits, this collection of mass-produced, predominately twentieth century prints offers insight into cultural appeal of the American Indian and the wide dissemination of the work of E. A. Burbank during the last century.
Dates:
approximately 1897-1937
E. A. Burbank Papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-120
Abstract
About 350 letters written mainly from the Oklahoma Territory, the Southwest, and the Dakotas by Elbridge Ayer Burbank to his uncle Edward E. Ayer, together with two scrapbooks containing incoming correspondence and miscellaneous clippings. Burbank, a painter and illustrator who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, was commissioned by Edward E. Ayer in 1897 to produce a series of portraits of prominent Indian Chiefs.
Dates:
1897-1949
Elmo Scott Watson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Watson
Abstract
Personal papers of journalist, professor of journalism, and western / frontier historian Elmo Scott Watson, consisting mainly of topical files on western subjects and journalism. Also included are Watson's manuscripts and published writings, and his correspondence and teaching-related files.
Dates:
1816-1951; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1951
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- Chicago 2
- Indian reservations -- United States 2
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- Apache Tribe of Oklahoma 1
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- Correspondence -- West (U.S.) -- 1901-1950 1
- Cowboys -- West (U.S.) 1
- Drawings (visual works) -- 1851-1900 1
- Drawings (visual works) -- 1901-1950 1
- Drawings -- American -- 1890-1920 1
- Explorers -- West (U.S.) 1
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) 1
- Ganado (Ariz.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site (Ganado, Ariz.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Indian reservations -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- Portraits -- History -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) -- Wars -- 1866-1895 1
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- Paintings (visual works) -- 1851-1900 1
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- Southwest, New -- Description and travel 1
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- Burbank, E. A. (Elbridge Ayer) 4
- Joseph (Nez Percé Chief) 3
- Red Cloud 3
- Ayer, Edward Everett 1
- Barry, D. F. (David Francis) 1
- Brady, Mathew B. 1
- Brave Bear 1
- Brininstool, E. A. (Earl Alonzo) 1
- Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma 1
- Clark, Badger 1
- Colorado College 1
- Crazy Horse 1
- Custer, George A. (George Armstrong) 1
- Dalton, Emmet 1
- Hamlin, Herbert 1
- Hubbell, John Lorenzo 1
- Lewis, Lloyd 1
- McGillycuddy, Valentine 1
- McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil 1
- Medill School of Journalism 1
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis) 1
- Miles, Nelson Appleton 1
- Murphy, Timothy 1
- Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho 1
- Pawnee Bill 1
- Powell, John Wesley 1
- Pretty Eagle (Crow Indian chief) 1
- Publishers' Auxiliary 1
- Rain in the Face 1
- Remington, Frederic 1
- Sioux Nation 1
- Sitting Bull 1
- Watson, Elmo Scott 1
- Wells, William 1
- Westerners. Chicago Corral 1
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