Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Eagle Feather Prayer Chant
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Image View:
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Overall view without frame
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Creator:
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Ernest Leonard Blumenschein (American painter, 1874-1960)
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Location:
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repository: Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine, United States) 2013.018
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Location Note:
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5600 Mayflower Hill; Lunder Collection
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GPS:
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+44.565-69.660833
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Date:
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ca. 1915-1925 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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86.36 cm (height) x 76.2 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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portrait; Native North Americans; American Indians; cultural documentation
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Description:
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Eagle Feather Prayer Chant is the right half of what was originally a much larger composition executed in 1915, entitled The Chief’s Two Sons. Sometime after 1920 Blumenschein cut the canvas in half and reworked the backgrounds of both pieces in order to create separate paintings. The other half depicts a male figure similar in age and also holding an eagle-wing fan but facing the viewer. (This painting is now titled Eagle Fan and is in the collection of the Denver Art Museum.) (Source: Colby Museum of Art [website]; http://www.colby.edu/museum/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-BLUMEN-CA-EF-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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