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Details

Object Name: painting
Maker: John Mix Stanley
Title: Crossing the Milk River 1853
Date: after 1853
Materials: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 1/2 in x 42 in (77.4 cm x 106.6 cm)
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object ID: 88.108.33

Institution: Autry Museum of the American West

Category: Art and Artifacts

Remarks

Painting by John Mix Stanley, Crossing the Milk River 1853, after 1853. No signature. Artist John Mix Stanley first visited the West in 1839. In the 1850s, when Stanley painted the Milk River in Montana, it was still an important travel route for the fur trade. In his day, critics celebrated his works as both accurate and beautiful.

Subject

rivers

North American Indians

landscapes

Publication