View on the Missouri, Blackbird’s Grave

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

View on the Missouri, Blackbird's Grave

Date

May 7, 1833

Dimensions

7 5/8 × 11 1/4 in. (19.4 × 28.6 cm)

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.373

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

Having gone aground on another sandbank on the afternoon of Mays, the Yellow Stone was again moving upstream on the following morning. On the morning of May 7 it passed within sight of the Blackbird Hills, named for a prominent chief of the Omahas whose grave was located there. According to local legend, the chief had, by his own instructions, been buried in a mound seated upright on a live mule. Bodmer made a watercolor study of the river in this vicinity later reproduced as Vignette XII in the aquatint atlas.

References in Journal

May 7, 1833

Labels:

genre, riverscape , Missouri River

Approximate Depicted Location:

Blackbird Hills, Missouri River