Seth Eastman is known primarily for his depictions of daily life among the Dakota and Ojibwe tribes in Minnesota. He was born to Robert and Sarah Lee Eastman on January 24, 1808, in Brunswick, Maine. Eastman attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he received training in sketching and topography. While at West Point, he began to paint scenes featuring the daily life of local Native American tribes. In 1830, Eastman was assigned to topography duty on the frontier and spent a short time at Fort Snelling before returning to West Point to teach. While at Fort Snelling, Eastman married Wakaninajinwin, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Cloud Man, a Dakota chief. Eastman left in 1832 for another military assignment soon after the birth of their baby girl, Winona and declared his marriage ended when he left. Winona was also known as Mary Nancy Eastman and was the mother of Charles Alexander Eastman, author of Indian Boyhood. From 1833–40, Eastman taught drawing at West Point. In 1835 he married his second wife, Mary Henderson, the daughter of a West Point surgeon. In 1841, he returned to Fort Snelling as a military commander and remained there with Mary and their five children for the next seven years. It was during this time that Eastman began visually recording the everyday way of life of the Dakota and Ojibwe people. His wife Mary also became involved in preserving Indian culture by writing books on local tales and legends, which he would illustrate for her. The most important of these books was entitled Dahcotah: Or, Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling. In 1847, Henry R. Schoolcraft, a former Indian agent, was chosen to conduct a study of the American Indian people. Eastman illustrated the six-volume set, published between 1851 and 1857 as Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States. The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Military Affairs also commissioned Eastman to paint images of 17 important military forts, which he completed between 1870–75. These paintings are now housed in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Eastman's works are significant for Minnesota history because art historians believe that Eastman based many of his paintings and sketches on his observations in the Sioux villages of Kaposia and Little Crow, as well as in Scott, Wabasha and Winona counties. Eastman died of a stroke while painting at his home in Washington, D.C., on August 31, 1875.
Road-Side View (View in Wisconsin)
By Seth Eastman
Located in New York, NY
Label on stretcher bar: No. 175. / AMERICAN ART-UNION. /Road-Side View / Painted by / Seth Eastman / Distributed December 20, 1850.
Oil
"Dahcota Mission of Peace 1820, Warning Against Tresspass, " by Seth Eastman
By Seth Eastman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dahkota Mission of Peace 1820, Warning Against Tresspass" is a color lithograph by Seth Eastman. It features figures trying to warn people against trespassing on their land. 7 3/4...
Lithograph
$475
"Coin Beads--Western US Wilderness Expedition, " Color Lithograph by Seth Eastman
By Seth Eastman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Coin Beads - Western US Wilderness Expedition of 1847" is a color lithograph by Seth Eastman. It depicts various Native American beads used as currency and...
Lithograph
19th century color engraving indigenous figures feathers text full body face
By Seth Eastman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Moqui Dancers, Moqui Pipe, Navajo Cradle & Headdress" is a hand-colored engraving by Seth Eastman. It depicts encyclopedic depictions of Native American...
Engraving
"Camanche Inscription on the Shoulder Blade of a Buffalo, " after S. Eastman
By Seth Eastman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Camanche Inscription on the Shoulder Blade of a Buffalo" is a lithograph after an original drawing by Seth Eastman. It depicts Native American inscriptions on an animal bone. It was...
Lithograph
$26,053
H 14.57 in W 17.33 in D 0.79 in
Brahms-Phantasie - Rare Portfolio of 41 Engravings by Max Klinger - 1894
By Max Klinger
Located in Roma, IT
Brahms-Phantasie is a wonderful in-folio volume: the Brahm's Phantasies musical score is incredibly illustrated with 37 numbered plates for a total of 41 original engravings (burin, ...
Paper, Engraving
$500
H 21.38 in W 8.5 in
Before It Happened (A mysterious staircase offers no clues as to what happened)
By Jukka Vanttinen
Located in New Orleans, LA
This Finnish artist creates a mezzotint in black and white. This impression is #44 of 100 and is signed, dated and titled in pencil. Jukka Vanttinen (Finn, b. 1954) Jukka Vanttinen...
Mezzotint
Folk Art American Hudson River School Landscape Figures Homes Rare 19th Century
Located in Buffalo, NY
A 19th century American landscape depicting a quiet coastal or lakeside scene at dusk, where a small cluster of houses rests along the water’s edge beneath a softly glowing sky. A n...
Oil, Board
$6,000
H 19 in W 29 in
"Grand Manan" Harrison Bird Brown, Maine Landscape, Hudson River School Seascape
By Harrison Bird Brown
Located in New York, NY
Harrison Bird Brown (1831 - 1915) Grand Manan Oil on canvas 12 x 20 inches Signed with initials lower left Harrison Bird Brown was born in 1831 in Portland, Maine, and is best known for his White Mountain landscapes and marine paintings of Maine's Casco Bay...
Canvas, Oil
$895
H 10 in W 14 in D 2 in
Antique American 19th Century Southern School Louisiana Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American landscape oil painting. Oil on paperboard. Framed. Measuring: 10 x 14 inches overall, and 7 x 10 painting alone. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
Oil
$12,000
H 21.25 in W 28.5 in
"Harbour of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, " Julius Montalant, Maritime Port Trade
Located in New York, NY
Julius Montalant (1823 - 1898) Harbour of Rio Janeiro, 1843-1850 Oil on canvas 17 x 24 inches Signed and dated lower right; conservator's inscription on the reverse Born in Virginia, probably Norfolk, Julius Montalant is known for his drawings and paintings inspired by his travels on board navy ships. Attached to the USS St. Louis around 1844-45, he sketched ports of call he visited, including Brazil, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, and China. Many of his works are held in the Museum of the U.S. Naval Academy. Navy records indicate his rank as 'C. Clerk', which may mean that he held a civilian position. During the 1850s he lived in Philadelphia, and in 1851-61 he exhibited at the Philadelphia Art Union and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Included were paintings of North America, Greece...
Canvas, Oil
$3,475
H 15 in W 19 in D 2 in
Luminous Hudson River School Landscape Cows Grazing Wide Gold Frame Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
A finely rendered 19th century Hudson River School landscape depicting cattle grazing within an expansive open field, set beneath a softly illuminated sky. The composition is anchore...
Canvas, Oil
$1,150
H 12 in W 16 in D 1 in
Antique American Pastoral Hudson River Painting Farm Oxen 1890 19th Century Rare
Located in Buffalo, NY
A 19th century American landscape depicting a pastoral valley framed by autumnal trees, with distant mountains rising softly along the horizon. A river winds through the foreground, ...
Oil, Board
Gone Fishing
Located in North Clarendon, VT
Wonderful Hudson River School oil on board of a fisherman in a peaceful River scene. Monogram and dated on reverse. 9.25" x 12.25" housed in a carved frame measuring 11.5" x 14.5".
Oil
$12,500
H 16.5 in W 23 in D 2.25 in
“Manchester-by-the-Sea” Ann Sophia Towne Darrah, 19th C. Female Artist American
Located in Yardley, PA
About this work: “Manchester-by-the-Sea” by Ann Sophia Towne Darrah (American, 1819-1881). Darrah was among the earliest American women to establish a professional reputation as a p...
Oil, Board
$15,000
H 19.5 in W 24.5 in
"Pastoral Landscape, " William Hart, Hudson River School, Cloudy View with Cows
By William Hart
Located in New York, NY
William Hart (1823 - 1894) Pastoral Landscape, 1877 Oil on canvas 9 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches Signed and dated lower left Born in Paisley, Scotland, William Ha...
Canvas, Oil
Clematis, English antique flower botanical chromolithograph, 1896
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Clematis' Flowers are numbered with a key to the varieties below the image. Antique English flower botanical chromolithograph.
Lithograph
Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics Pl. 59
By Seth Eastman
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics Pl. 59" is an original color lithograph by Seth Eastman. This piece depicts 70 small images depicting Native American symbols. 8" x 5 1/4" art 18 ...
Lithograph