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| Pierre Kurtness – Cree Chief |
| FES Title: | Pierre Kurtness – Cree chief | |
| Alternate Titles: | Pierre Kurtness – A Cree Conjuror |
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| Date: | 1904 | |
| Size: | 18″H x 12″W | |
| Medium: |  |
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| Type: | illustration | |
| Published: | Schoonover, Frank E. “The Edge of the Wilderness.” Scibner’s Magazine, April 1905: 450. caption: Pierre Kurtness (drawn from life in his tent.) Schoonover, Frank E. The Edge of the Wilderness, edited by Cortlandt Schoonover. Toronto: Methuen, 1974: 85. |
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| Inscription: | lr: F.E. Schoonover | |
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| Exhibitions: | 1911 PAFA; 1962 FES | |
| Comments: | index; edit | |
| Commentary: | Schoonover records “I became intimate with the chief, a Cree Indian. His name was Pierre Kurtness, and he was a conjourer…and when I proposed to draw his likeness, he seemed very pleased…He was very proud of the drawing and held it up so those in the doorway could see it. Afterward I added…some dots with white chalk to the picture of the handkerchief about his neck.” (trip diary) See #194 for further commentary. |
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| Provenance: | Artist; Helen L. Card, Latendorf Bookshop, New York (December 6, 1962); not known | |
