Ledger Drawing, circa 1875–78, attributed to Bear’s Heart (1851–82), exhibited at the Frieze New York Art Fair. Photo: John Bigelow Taylor/Courtesy of Donald Ellis Gallery, New York A great work of ...

Bear’s Heart at Fort Marion (via Smithsonian Institution) (click to enlarge) Bear’s Heart, unlike other ledger artists who used discarded accounting ledgers, had his own drawing book, in which he ...

On April 28, 1875, 72 Native American prisoners of war from five different Great Plains tribes (Arapaho, Caddo, Cheyenne, Commanche, and Kiowa) were shackled and transported by train from Fort Sill, ...

DRAWINGS are to paintings what letters are to public declarations, or diaries to autobiographies, or songs to symphonies. Michelangelo called drawing the basis of almost all knowledge, believing that ...

On the face of things, a focus on drawing rather than painting or sculpture looks like a canny tactic if you are attempting a history of art, especially an “alternative” one. You are—potentially, at ...

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