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Coleman CA, John - John Coleman, Cowboy Artist of America member - Mato-Tope Four Bears

John Coleman, Cowboy Artist of America member - Mato-Tope Four Bears
Bronze Edition of 35. Few remain in the edition.
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36 " x 20 " x 10.5 "

Mato-TopeFourBears

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In the early 1830s, Karl Bodmer and George Catlin recorded images of the tribes that Lewis and Clark discovered some 30 years earlier. Mato-Tope was a Mandan Chief and an artist. On paper, Mato-Tope himself recorded images from some of his battles. His portrait was painted by both Karl Bodmer and George Catlin, who are said to have influenced Mato-Tope's artistic style. Coleman's sculpture of Mato-Tope is after a Karl Bodmer watercolor from about 1834. He stood proudly for Bodmer, adorned in his finest clothing with accoutrements that related to past victories of war. The wooden knife in his war bonnet is a reminder of a particular battle that Mato-Tope was involved in with a Cheyenne. The Cheyenne attacked Mato-Tope, wounding his hand, but Mato-Tope was able to disarm him, keeping the knife. This battle was one that Mato-Tope painted for Bodmer. The lance he held in his right hand killed an Arikara who had murdered his brother and was further adorned with the enemy's scalp.

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