Ledger Narratives The Plains Indian Drawings in the Mark Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College

Name: Ledger Narratives The Plains Indian Drawings in the Mark Lansburgh Collection at Dartmouth College
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ISBN: 9780806142982

ISBN-10: 0806142987

ISBN-13: 9780806142982

Edition: 2012

Authors: Colin G. Calloway, Michael Paul Jordan, Vera B. Palmer, Joyce M. Szabo, Melanie Benson Taylor

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The largest known collection of ledger art ever acquired by one individual is Mark Lansburgh’s diverse assemblage of more than 140 drawings, now held by the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College and catalogued in this important book. The Cheyennes, Crows, Kiowas, Lakotas, and other Plains peoples created the genre known as ledger art in the mid-nineteenth century. Before that time, these Indians had chronicled the heroic achievements of their warriors and chiefs on rock, buffalo robes, and tipi covers. As they came into increasing contact with American traders, the artists recorded their experiences in pencil and crayon drawings on paper bound in ledger or account books. The drawings…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 11/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 9.10" wide x 11.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.718
Language: English

Joyce M. Szabo is Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico and author of Howling Wolf and the History of Ledger Art.