Evening Bivouac on the Missouri

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Evening Bivouac on the Missouri

Dimensions

9 1/8 × 12 3/16 in. (23.2 × 31 cm)

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.380

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

Another version of an evening's bivouac on the Missouri was executed following Bodmer's return to Europe. This was reproduced as Vignette XXIII under the title "Encampment of Travelers on the Missouri" in the picture atlas that illustrated the publications of Prince Maximilian's account of his North American travels in 1833-34. The travelers arrived at Fort Clark above present-day Bismarck, North Dakota, on November 8, according to Maximilian's journal entry for that day. Here they spent the winter months and departed again downriver for St. Louis the following April. While at Fort Clark both Maximilian and Bodmer made extensive studies of the indigenous Indian tribes, which within the next four years were to be decimated by a smallpox epidemic.

References in Journal

November 8, 1833

Labels:

Missouri River , landscape

Approximate Depicted Location:

Fort Clark, North Dakota