Watering Horses

Generously provided by Gilcrease Museum

Miller tailored this scene of Indian women watering their horses—and at least one other version (CR# 439A)—to an oval format. In other related works, the artist utilized a horizontal, rectangular composition and included additional figures and a more clearly defined mountain landscape in the background.

Karen B. McWhorter

Artist

Alfred Jacob Miller

Date

1855

Catalogue Number

439E

Medium

Oil on canvas (oval)

Inscriptions

LR: Miller, 1855

The artist; [?]; Victor D. Spark, New York, NY; [M. Knoedler and Co., New York, NY 1948-1962;] Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK; present owner by gift