The Sun Dance from "The Song of the Indian Wars"
Date1925
Illustration CitationThe Song of the Indian Wars, by John G. Neihardt (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1925)
MediumInk and gouache on paper
Dimensionscomposition: 8 15/16 × 7 in. (22.7 × 17.8 cm)
sheet: 11 7/8 × 9 in. (30.2 × 22.9 cm)
sheet: 11 7/8 × 9 in. (30.2 × 22.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Jere True Mueller, 1989
Object number1989-38
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextAllen Tupper True created this illustration for The Song of the Indian Wars, which was part of John Neihardt's A Cycle of the West, a series of poems published from 1915 to 1925. The topics covered the Euro-American expansion into the Great Plains and displacement of Native American peoples. A Pyle student, True specialized in scenes of the American West.
Frederic Rodrigo Gruger
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