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."
Sid Richardson Museum *
"When Blackfeet and Sioux Meet Charles M. Russell (1864-1926) 1908 Oil on canvas" ...
Sid Richardson Museum > The Cinematic West: The Art that Made the Movies *
"Trouble Hunters Charles M. Russell 1864-1926 Oil on canvas 1902 ...
The central figure in this composition, wearing the wolf fur hat adorned with feathers, is the Piegan [Niitsitapi] warrior and noted horse thief, White Quiver. As we see in this image, White Quiver's war parties were typically smaller in scale. He is noted to have developed the unusual approach of entering his enemies' camp alone at dusk. Thet setting here may allude to this practice, as the party seems to be scouting their target at the golden hour of sunset, indicated by how the light and shadow fall across the rock face and party in the foreground of the painting. Recent technical analysis of this work revealed that Russell altered his initial composition which situated the lead warrior more forward in the center. The setting for this painting accords with the rocky outcroppings of the Missouri Breaks located about 150 miles north and east from Great Falls. Today, the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument is bordered by a wildlife refuge named in honor of Charles M. Russell."
