James Earle Fraser sculpting a Native American model
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Object Details
- Subject
- Fraser, James Earle
- Place of publication, production, or execution
- No place, unknown, or undetermined
- Physical Description
- 1 photographic print : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm.
- Summary
- Item is a copy print.
Fraser sculpting, from life, a head of a Native American man later used as the study for the Buffalo nickel. The model is seated on a table. - Citation
- James Earle Fraser sculpting a Native American model, ca. 1910. Miscellaneous photographs collection, circa 1845-1980. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Use Note
- Current copyright status is undetermined
- Provenance
- Copy negative donated 1990 by Eleanore Stalker Foster, along with an unrelated letter from Paul Manship to her father, Hugh Stalker. Copyprints made by SI Photo Lab. It is assumed that Foster's father was the original owner of the photograph.
- Location Note
- Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
- ca. 1910
- Record number
- (DSI-AAA)10654
- Type
- Photographs
- See more items in
- Miscellaneous photographs collection, circa 1845-1980
- Archives of American Art
- Topic
- American Indians in art
- Artists at or with their work
- Sculptors
- Record ID
- AAADCD_item_10654
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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