Artist Nicholas de Grandmaison
Title Crowfoot
Media pastel on sandpaper
Size 25 x 19.25 in. / 63.5 x 48.9 cm.
Frame Size 35.75 x 29.75 x 1.5 in.
Sold $13,000
Estimate $9,000 - $12,000
Notes
signed lower left and indistinctly inscribed lower right 'Crow..'; bears title on label verso; framed with special glass
Reference
bears inscription 'Crowfoot was the leading Chief of the Blackfeet. He was born in 1830 to the Blood tribe but had moved north to the Blackfeet when his widowed mother married a man from that tribe. Crowfoot was responsible for the signing of the treaty in 1877 with Canada. He died in 1890 at Blackfoot Crossing and was buried at Sand Hills.' on label verso; also includes a 34 cent stamp with a portrait of Crowfoot
illustrated on page 97 in drawn from the Past, Nicholad de Grandmaison, by Gordon Snyder and introduction by Joan Murray; published 2007 by Snyder Fine Arts [de Grandmaison Family]
Provenance
Masters Gallery, Calgary, label verso; from the Estate of Dr. Joan Snyder with proceeds to support the University of Calgary
Biographical Information
Nicholas de Grandmaison ~ [1892-1978] Canadian ASA, MSA, RCA
see
History in Their Blood; Indian Portraits of Nicholas de Grandmaison, by H.Dempsey, Douglas and McIntyre, 1982;
Drawn from the Past, Nicholas de Grandmaison, by Gordon Snyder, Snyder Fine Art, 2007
Dict. of Canadian Artists, by C.MacDonald, Vol.2 pg.305;
Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.1, pg.87, Westbridge Pub., 1999
exhibition list in R.C.A.A., by E.McMann, pg.155
listed on Artists in Canada, a Union List of Artists' Files, by National Gallery of Canada Library et al, see website at Canadian Heritage Information Network [CHIN]