Sweet Medicine: Council Grounds of the Great Treaty at Horse Creek, Nebraska

Drex Brooks, Sweet Medicine: Council Grounds of the Great Treaty at Horse Creek, Nebraska, 1987, printed 1989, toned gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation, 1991.21.1, © 1989, Drex Brooks
Drex Brooks, Sweet Medicine: Council Grounds of the Great Treaty at Horse Creek, Nebraska, 1987, printed 1989, toned gelatin silver print, sheet: 2022 78 in. (50.858.1 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation, 1991.21.1, © 1989, Drex Brooks

Artwork Details

Title
Sweet Medicine: Council Grounds of the Great Treaty at Horse Creek, Nebraska
Artist
Date
1987, printed 1989
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet: 2022 78 in. (50.858.1 cm.)
Copyright
© 1989, Drex Brooks
Credit Line
Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation
Mediums Description
toned gelatin silver print
Classifications
Subjects
  • Allegory — other — defeat
  • History — United States — Great Treaty at Horse Creek, NE
  • Indian — Lakota
  • Landscape — tree — oak tree
  • Landscape — Nebraska
  • Disaster — fire
Object Number
1991.21.1

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Henry Wolf, Howard Pyle, She Was Silent, 1889, wood engraving on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1973.130.35
She Was Silent
Date1889
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Henry Wolf, Howard Pyle, May Be "Shipwrecked", 1890, wood engraving on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1973.130.41
May Be Shipwrecked”
Date1890
wood engraving on paper
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Henry Wolf, Howard Pyle, Cooking a Camp Dinner, 1877, photomechanical wood engraving on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1973.130.1
Cooking a Camp Dinner
Date1877
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Not on view
Henry Wolf, Howard Pyle, Washington the Young Surveyor, 1888, wood engraving on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1973.130.29
Washington the Young Surveyor
Date1888
wood engraving on paper
Not on view

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