[BAND OF WARRIORS RIDING AWAY FROM CAMP, AN AMERICAN FORT IN THE NEAR DISTANCE].

An action-filled image of life near an American Army fort (inscribed "Fort Pierre" lower right) along the Missouri River, this fine oil painting of a large party of heavily armed and war-painted braves riding out of their camp is similar to the style of the important frontier painter, Carl Wimar, but also shows the stylistic influences of other notable artists of the American West such as Seth Eastman, Anton Schonborn, and Alfred Jacob Miller. The German-born Wimar based himself in St. Louis, which he used as a springboard for sketching trips through present-day Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. "He translated these [sketches] into paintings that authentically and powerfully depict Indian life.His dramatic portrayals of the conflict between native Americans and pioneers helped to establish many of the myths of the American West that prevail to this day" - Ron Tyler. A handsome painting showing the upper Missouri in the fur trade era. Rick Stewart, Carl Wimar: Chronicler of the Missouri River Frontier (Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1991), passim. Peggy & Harold Samuels, Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West (Garden City, 1976), passim. Panel beginning to bend slightly, otherwise fine condition. In an American carved and gilded wood frame. …