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Young Bear Chief
FES Title: Young Bear Chief
Alternate Titles: The Wise Elder
Date: 12/08/1926
Size: 32″H x 20″W
Medium: oil-on-English-Linen-canvas
Type: illustration
Published: Hough, Emerson. “Too Proud to Run Away.” The Youth’s Companion, 7 April 1927: 236.
caption: Of evenings the old man, grandfather of Natama, would sometimes tell stories of the old days when the buffalo were on the plains
Inscription: lr: S / ’26
Annotations:
Exhibitions: 1998 Allentown Art Museum
Comments: relined; Digital image taken in FL 6-16-05; index; edit
Commentary: This image was painted over #1033. (day books)
Provenance: Dr. William A. Morton, West Chester, Pennsylvania; J.N. Bartfield Galleries, New York; acquired by private collection; Freeman’s Auctions, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lot 79 (June 8, 2014)