Subject: warrior
Culture: Blackfeet, Piegan, Blood
Setting: Blackfoot confederacy, northern Great Plains 19thc
Amon Carter Museum of American Art *
"Alexander Phimister Proctor (1860-1950) Indian Warrior, modeled 1895-97
Bronze, cast 1900 Pazin Foundry, Paris ... Inspired by the great equestrian civic monuments of antiquity,
Proctor envisioned this work as being a different kind of heroic figure than had previously been seen in monuments to war heroes: a Native American warrior. Proctor modeled the horse from an impressive steed owned by a New York friend. For his Indian model, he traveled to the Blackfoot Reservation in Montana, where he sculpted several Blackfoot men. The combination of nobility and natural vitality seen in Proctor's mounted Indian Warrior earned him critical acclaim for this bronze as well as a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exposition in 1900."
* Amon Carter Museum of American Art
"Frederic Remington (1861-1909) An Indian Trapper, 1889 Oil on canvas ...
In April 1887 Remington journeyed on a sketching expedition to the Canadian West. Traveling into Alberta, he headed north toward Calgary and attempted, with limited success, to sketch Blackfeet along the Bow River. He collected a large number of artifacts on the trip, and some of them were incorporated into this painting, which he completed in his studio at a later date. The painting was reproduced in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in May 1891, and the subject was described as 'a Cree, or perhaps a Blackfoot, whom one was apt to run across in the Selkirk Mountains or elsewhere on the plains of the British Territory, or well up north in the Rockies.' The man wears a Hudson's Bay blanket coat, fringed leggings, and a thick, animal-fur cap, all necessary equipment for the cold northern altitudes. Other interesting details include the tack-studded riding crop (or quirt) in his left hand, colorful beaded knife scabbard, and a flintlock musket decorated with brass tacks."
