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Post by grahamew on Jun 4, 2011 12:14:28 GMT -5
Hauser painted more than one version of Kicking Bear This one was painted in 1903, but there's a similar undated picture entitled War Eagle. earlier in thr thread I speculated that the face may have been based on this photo, which I assume was taken during Kicking Bear's stint with Cody during 1891: I wonder, however, if it isn't based on this reversed Dinwiddie photo from 1896: It wouldn't be the first time Hauser used a reverse image of a photo; as stated above, he seems to have done so with his portrait of Wolf Robe. There are two more Hauser Kicking Bears that I know of. One shows a man without a bonnet and I wonder if the figure is based on Rinehart's Black Man, Arapaho: However, the poses in the Dinwiddie photos aren't a million miles away (except that Kicking Bear is holding a pipe in all Hauser's variations); indeed, the man holding the rifle in this manner is one hauser seems to have returned to again and again (see the previous page, for example).
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Post by grahamew on Jun 7, 2011 14:10:25 GMT -5
Maybe there's a little bit of Fought by the War Eagle in the Kicking Bear painting too.
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Post by grahamew on Jul 2, 2011 4:21:30 GMT -5
A rare Hauser showing an Indian in contemporary dress:
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Post by grahamew on Jul 17, 2011 16:45:56 GMT -5
Hauser's Sioux Encampment, Pocupine, 1910: And his A Visit in Camp, 1909:
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Post by grahamew on Jul 18, 2011 12:59:48 GMT -5
A variation on the type of camp scene shown above. Less obvious, but the poses of the men with the rifle are similar: You'll notice the same two seated figures appear not only in two of the paintings in the post above, but also in this untitled one, although the angle of the man with the pipe is slightly different:
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Post by grahamew on Jul 18, 2011 13:23:12 GMT -5
This looks suspiciously like Kicking Bear and Short Bull from the Fort Sheridan photo at the right of this pencil and watercolour sketch, Edge of the Encampment: You'll also notice the seated man with the fur hat and pipe is from Appointment with the Medicine Man (1896): The standing man with the blanket and feathers from this work looks like a version of one of the men in the photograph at the top left (see above for details and www.cowanauctions.com/auctions/item.aspx?ItemId=83204):
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Post by grahamew on Jul 20, 2011 9:59:17 GMT -5
John Hauser - Indian Family (pencil and gouache): And the reverse: The Challenge (the cover of Edgar Stewart's Custer's Luck), which uses both the man in the bonnet in the painted sketch and the man in the hat from the sketch on the rear: Notive that the finished painting, which can be viewed in black and white ( collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?q=Hauser+John ) combines elements from the painted sketch and the pencil one: This is difficult to make out from the size of the reproduction, but the man second from the right of this picture, Cheyenne Camp, apears to be in The Challenge. I THINK its the reverse of the man wearing the hat and red blanket who is under the raised arm of the man in the left foreground.
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Post by grahamew on Aug 18, 2011 6:05:29 GMT -5
From Cowan's: Portrait of Chief Red Cloud, 1902 oil on canvas signed and dated 1902 l.r. title Chief Red Cloud l.l. inscribed on reverse by the artist: Chief of all Sioux/ by John Hauser/ Pine Ridge Reservation/ 1902 24 x 16 in. This is the second portrait of Chief Red Cloud that has surfaced at Cowan's Auctions in recent years. The first, an exterior portrait of Red Cloud, did not compare to any of the known photographs of the Chief, nor does this execution compare to photographs. In fact, little is known of Hauser's activity. However, given the inscription on the back of the painting, Pine Ridge Reservation a place where Hauser frequently worked, it can be assumed that Hauser painted Red Cloud from life, or possibly from personal photographs. The discovery of John Hauser's personal photograph albums in 2010 shed much light on the otherwise obscure artist from Cincinnati, who was well travelled and spent much of his time at Pine Ridge Reservation. From the sketchbook, we learned that Hauser often executed paintings from his personal collection of photography. However, much of this work would have been accomplished later in the artist's studio back in Cincinnati. Red Cloud and Hauser would have almost certainly crossed paths at Pine Ridge, though in what manner, is not entirely clear. Despite this uncertainty, the artist's reputation as a friend of the Sioux and a welcomed visitor, encourages the liklihood that Hauser painted Red Cloud from life. www.cowanauctions.com/auctions/item.aspx?ItemId=101446Now look at the collar, blanket and pipe in this photo: The photo is credted to Felix Flying Hawk in 1905, but there was another another version on the Cowan site a while back in the mount of Isiah R. McIntyre of Chadron, Nebraska, dated 1904: Somebody clearly has their dates wrong.
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Post by epharris on Aug 19, 2011 10:53:34 GMT -5
This may be of interest to persons following this thread: Straight White Shield. A Life and Works of John Hauser (1859-1913. With a catalogue raisonné. By Edward Paxton Harris and Jerry Glenn is scheduled for publication in February 2012. There will be a complete illustrated listing of known portraits by Hauser, as well as his other works. If you are interested in receiving notification of the book's release and availability, please contact epharris@cinci.rr.com
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Post by grahamew on Aug 20, 2011 3:43:30 GMT -5
Looking forward to it.
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Post by grahamew on Aug 21, 2011 14:09:30 GMT -5
Here's Hauser's Indian Encampment, 1907: With an added bonnet, this is the man at the bottom right of this group of photos, taken by Hauser or his friend and fellow-painter, Joseph Henry Sharp (for information about the photograph album, see: www.cowanauctions.com/auctions/item.aspx?ItemId=83204 ):
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Post by grahamew on Sept 1, 2011 6:47:44 GMT -5
Hauser's In The Foothills: The man wearing the white blanket is clearly one of the Southern Cheyenne taken prisoner by Custer at Sweetwater Creek, 1869: Identification according to Custer, left to right: Curly Head [Hair?], Fat Bear and Dull Knife; according to Grinnell: Young Bear, One Bear and Island. Photograph by W. S. Soule at Camp Supply.
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Post by grahamew on Sept 18, 2011 3:28:09 GMT -5
Hauser's painting of Chief Bald Face, Sioux (undated): The same body shape and shield feature in an 1896 paiting of Chief Plenty Horses, Sioux (which I've seen but don't have an image to post). The same face and body shape are clearly evident in Hauser's 1905 painting, Chief Plenty Horses, Ogalalla (sic) Sioux: Here's the Lakota Plenty Horses, photographed in 1891: There is a certain resemblance. However, I came across this photo of Hituena, a Gros Ventre, taken in 1909 by De Lancey Gill: Hmmm. Rinehart has this man (albeit an earlier image of him) as Cleaver Warden or Gros Ventre Man, an Arapaho - aka Yellow Magpie! digital.omahapubliclibrary.org/transmiss/research/cleanhtml/tmi02203.html
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Post by grahamew on Sept 28, 2011 13:44:56 GMT -5
Another Hauser painting showing Iron Tail: This doesn't look like Iron Tail (certainly not the Iron Tail associated with the Wild West show of this era) and it doesn't look like Hauser's other portait of Iron Tail (who also isn't THE Iron Tail). Any ideas who it is?
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Post by grahamew on Oct 5, 2011 17:48:19 GMT -5
Cowan's Auctions have put an image of the back of the Red Cloud painting in reply #37 above: As you can see it clearly says 1902 and sems to suggest it was painted on Pine Ridge. As mentioned earlier, however, it is also clearly based, at least in part, on the McIntire photograph which was dated 1904 - also by Cowan's. In Goodyear's book about Red Cloud, two McIntire photos are reproduced of Red Cloud dated 1904, so I wonder if that's where the date comes from. They don't appear to be from the same session as the one posted above, however: I can't make out a pipe and his bandana is over his collar, not under it (and it also seems to be darker). If it is, of course, it raises some interesting questions about the dating of either the photographs or the painting.
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