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Burbank, Elbridge Ayer (1858-1949)

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Burbank, Elbridge Ayer (1858-1949) - E. A. Burbank (1858-1949) - Chief Joseph Nez Perces
E. A. Burbank (1858-1949) - Chief Joseph Nez Perces
Conte Crayon on Paper
dated 1898
7 " x 4.25 "

PDC91001-0211-003

$1,200

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Measures 8 by 5.25 inches framed. The owner has authorized us to lower the price from $2,000 to $1,200, which makes this a wonderful collecting opportunity. The piece is dated 1898, red conte crayon, and is out of a long time Arizona collection. Chief Joseph lived from 1940-1904 and was the leader of the Nez Perce during General Oliver O Howard's attempt to forcibly remove the band to a reservation in Idaho. He is renowned as a humanitarian and peacemaker. From the Fine Arts Journal January 1911 an article by James William Pattison entitled E A Burbank- His Experiences in Painting Indian Life - Burbank speaks of painting Chief Joseph - If you spent one evening with Chief Joseph, youd love him, you couldnt help it. He is one of the nicest men lever knew. When I made this picture (referring to an oil of Chief Joseph), it was the first time he had posed for a portrait with his face painted, and he made me keep the doors and windows locked. It took four days, and he gave a sigh of relief when it was over. They sit so still that it is perfect torture. I told him, when I got through with the eyes, that he neednt sit so still, that he could go to sleep if he wanted to. But he scorned the idea of such a thing. About the artist:Elbridge Ayer Burbank was born in Harvard, IL in 1858. After studying at the Chicago Art Academy, he received a commission to illustrate Northwest magazine, essentially an advertisement published to encourage homesteading. The traveling entailed in finishing this commission brought Burbank through Montana, Idaho and Washington, and fostered a profound appreciation for the American West in him. After the completion of the Northwest project, E. A. Burbank went to Munich to study, where he met J.H. Sharp and William R. Leigh, who would remain lifelong friends. As did countless other artists who met Sharp, E. A. Burbank became focused on traveling and painting the Indian people of the Southwest. When he returned from Germany, he was hired by his uncle, Edward Ayer, the first president of the Field Columbian Museum, to paint portraits of the great Indian leaders of the day. Elbridge A. Burbank took on the project and, once completed, did not stop, continuously traveling around the country painting as many Indian subjects as he could.All told, E. A. Burbank painted over 1200 Indian portraits in his lifetime. His travels put him in contact with some of the prominent figures of the West, including Lorenzo Hubbell, who he counted amongst his better friends, and Geronimo, whose portrait he painted and who is rumored to have said that he liked Burbank better than any other white man he ever met. Today, E. A. Burbank's work can be seen in the collections of the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Smithsonian and the Field Museum. After almost twenty years spent in insane asylums, Elbridge Ayer Burbank died in 1949 of injuries sustained from being struck by a cable car in downtown San Francisco.
 

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