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Endpiece. "Howling Wolf" Hunting Buffalo; [unnumbered blank page]; 119. [blank page]; 120. Two Warriors Facing Each Other.
Endpiece. "Howling Wolf" Hunting Buffalo; [unnumbered blank page]; 119. [blank page]; 120. Two Warriors Facing Each Other.

Endpiece. "Howling Wolf" Hunting Buffalo; [unnumbered blank page]; 119. [blank page]; 120. Two Warriors Facing Each Other.

Artist/Maker (Southern Cheyenne, 1849–1927)
Date1874–75
MediumPen, ink, and watercolor on ledger paper
DimensionsOverall: 7 7/8 × 12 3/8 in. (20 × 31.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Jacob D. Cox
Portfolio[Szabo title, endpiece: "Howling Wolf"]
Object number1904.1180.29
Status
Not on view
More Information
Howling Wolf's depiction of a buffalo hunt focuses on the event itself, omitting any description of place as extraneous. In most Native American Plains art, schematic, nonrepresentational allusions to landscape suggest a cosmic and nonproprietary view of space, time, and terrain that is less dependent on specific location, and thus more appropriate to the endless expanse of the prairie.
Exhibition History
American Indian Art of the Plains and Southwest
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 11, 1978 - April 30, 1978 )
Love, Glory and Guns: Images of Peace and War from the Permanent Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 3, 1986 - November 16, 1986 )
Howling Wolf: An Autobiography of a Plains Warrior-Artist
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 2, 1992 - December 6, 1992 )
  • University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque (January 16, 1993 - March 13, 1993 )
Changing Visions of the North American Landscape
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 24, 2000 - January 28, 2001 )
"The Painted Arrow People": Art of the Cheyenne
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 9, 2008 - December 23, 2008 )
Art and Life in Early America
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 2, 2014 - June 28, 2015 )
Objects of Encounter: American Myths of Place
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 5, 2022 - December 23, 2022 )
Collections
  • Americas
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