Mounted Indians Carrying Spears. Rosa Bonheur
Indiens à cheval armés de lances
1890
oil on cardboard
13.75 × 19 in (34.9 × 48.3 cm)
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Whitney Gallery of Western Art Collection
Accession number 8.04.6
Object history Partial Bequest of Vernon R. Drwenski and Museum Purchase
Notes In this painting Bonheur depicts Rocky Bear and Red Shirt, two prominent Lakota (Sioux) who performed in Buffalo Bill's Wild West. She portrayed the Indians mounted on horseback and in an idyllic landscape setting, a presentation similar to her painting of William F. Cody.
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